AFC Hayes 0 Egham Town 4

CALOR LEAGUE ONE CENTRAL
THURSDAY 10 APRIL 2014
AFC HAYES 0 (0) EGHAM TOWN 4 (1)
Reis Stanislaus 2 (42, 54), Ryan O’Toole (62), Brendan Matthew (77)

An imperious performance by Egham Town lifted them back to 10th place, broke the 50 point barrier, included a goal with a first touch but still did not answer the question of who is going to be the first Egham Town man to score a hat-trick this season.
The postponement of the game at home to Kettering Town on Tuesday (now rescheduled for 17 April) gives Egham a horrible end to the season, with, from Saturday’s trip to Chalfont St Peter, seven games in fifteen days. The news from the club is that very extensive work has had to be done to repair the damage the recent flooding did to the power supply for the floodlights, and work continues to get the lights fit for Tuesday 15’s visit of Barton Rovers.
There was certainly no power shortage in the legs of the Egham players at AFC Hayes. The visitors attacked from the first whistle and in as one-sided a half of football as anyone could wish to see forced the home side back until they cracked. Josh Andrew had the first decent chance, after 8 minutes, but volleyed over off a Reis Stanislaus pass. Egham should have had a penalty when Marcus Moody was sent sprawling by Lee McManus but referee C Bodell, whose performance can be said to be patchy at best, ignored calls for a spot kick; that surprised even the home players. Andrew later forced home keeper Bawinder Khiara into a very good save, the keeper plunging to his right to stop a point blank shot. In the 37th minute Ryan O’Toole swung in a corner that was on its way in before being headed clear. Joe Chandiram took the next flag kick, and after Hayes failed to clear their lines Stanislaus saw his goal bound header cleared over the bar. Eventually the home side, whose fitness had to be admired after recent games against Slough Town and Ashford Town (Middx.), were breached when Stanislaus, twisting round to get a good angle off a Calvin Thomas pass, hammered in a low shot that took a small deflection off a home defender. Apparently the home committee were more of a mind to give the goal as an own goal. Why would you want to have that against one of your own players? Anyway, it was on target and would have gone in anyway.
There was no doubting the scorer of the second, after 54 minutes. Louis Chandler-Joseph, who put in a splendid shift at right back, played a forward pass that Dan Bailey shanked skywards, and on its way down the ball was met with precision and power by Stanislaus’ stunning overhead volley, the scoring shot recalling a slightly better effort in the replayed game at Royston Town. After 62 minutes it was 3-0, O’Toole ramming home Thomas’ square pass on the edge of the box. Egham were threatening to run amok, but substitutions took some of the steam out of the team, apart from for the fourth goal. Sub one – Andy Crossley, on for Thomas – hared down the left and delivered a perfect cross into the box where the ball was met decisively by sub two – Brendan Matthew, on for Andrew – to score with his first touch of the ball. That is the second time he has done that; the first was at home to Dorking three seasons ago as Egham chucked 3-0 lead away but “B” came off the bench to grab the game’s seventh goal and three points for the Sarnies.
Between goals three and four Stanislaus picked up a caution for the crime of tackling cleanly, Mr Bodell again baffling all and sundry, then booked Joe Chandiram, who had protested Stanislaus’ innocence. At the death, though, he completely ignored a late, potentially dangerous and decidedly cheap challenge by a home forward on Sarnies keeper Jamie Norris. Odd. The chances for Stanislaus to be the first to bag three in a game this season dried up, so he had to be content with his third double of the season, his total now 16 to O’Toole’s 19.