Takeley 3-3 (1-4 p) Bishop’s Stortford Match Report

Takeley 3-3 (1-4 p) Bishop’s Stortford Match Report

21/7/26

Pre-Season Friendly

Hamish Arnold

Two penalty saves helped Bishop’s Stortford to a shootout win to retain the Gordon Silvester Memorial Trophy away at Takeley on Tuesday night after a 3-3 draw.

Aaron Greene opened the scoring for the Blues inside 10 minutes, with a low finish from the right side of the box, but a quick counter-attack following a Stortford corner saw the hosts equalise when Lee Cocking ran through from halfway and slotted home. Charlie Johnson restored the lead on the stroke of half time when Charlie Castle dummied Obi Onyeagwara’s cut back from the left by-line, with the defender finding the bottom left corner with a first-time finish in a central position.

HT 1-2

In a near replica of the second goal, Tyrone Baker converted an Onyeagwara cut back from the left into the bottom corner inside three minutes of the second half, but ex-Blues striker George Sykes scored from close range on the hour mark and Stortford Academy graduate Jordan Westcott curled a free kick over the wall from left of centre into the top left corner to level the game at 3-3.

FT 3-3

In the shootout, Jaden Ogwuazor, Jack Smith, Deivi Kreka and George Jessey all scored for the Steve Castle’s side, while the Trialist goalkeeper kept out Pullen and Tommy Lethbridge, after Westcott had scored for the Isthmian League North Division side.

Pens 1-4

TEAMS

Takeley XI

1 Trialist

2 Clarke

3 Wicker 

4 Thomas

5 Powell

6 Pullen

7 Lethbridge

8 Witherspoon

9 Sykes

10 Cocking

11 Embalo

Subs

Westcott

Sampford

Drake

Marzell

Storey-Braun

Trialist

Bishop’s Stortford XI

1 Trialist

2 Zack Howell (Field 49′)

3 Leon Davies (Kreka 63′)

5 Jake Thompson

7 Tyrone Baker (G Jessey 63′)

8 Harry Titchmarsh (Smith 46′)

9 Aaron Greene (Goal 10′) (Trialist #20 46′)

10 Obi Onyeagwara (A Jessey 69′)

11 Charlie Castle (Trialist #21 54′)

18 Erin Amu (Ogwuazor 61′)

22 Charlie Johnson (Goal 45′)

Subs

4 Jaden Ogwuazor

14 Jack Smith

15 Rehan Field

16 Deivi Kreka

17 Alfie Jessey

19 George Jessey

20 Trialist

21 Trialist

Penalty Shootout

Ogwuazor ✅

Westcott ✅

Smith ✅

Pullen ❌

Kreka ✅

Lethbridge ❌

Jessey ✅