WESTBURY UNITED 2 OLDLAND 0

Goals from Mitch Spackman and Nick Taylor in the first twenty minutes gave new manager Shaun Gardiner the perfect start in his first home game since taking over recently. But Oldland will be kicking themselves after they wasted three times as many chances as their hosts, failing to finish any of them.

After Taylor had headed a Grant Gunning corner over early on, Oldland had two clear chances to take the lead straight after. Lewis Powell showed great skill and composure, flicking the ball over the defender but hitting his shot straight at keeper Callum Hotine. Then Ashley Bernard, up from the back at a free kick, saw his volley strike a defender and away to safety.

The missed opportunites proved costly as Westbury took the lead on ten minutes when Mitch Spackman's long range left footer squirmed under the dive of keeper Ryan Perry. Worse was to follow on twenty minutes. Gunning, architect of most of Westbury's set pieces took a corner and Nick Taylor rose unchallenged to head into the roof of the net for 2-0.

Hotine in the United goal made the first of his superb saves on 24 minutes when he tipped over a rising shot from Jack Parker and he then saved again from Powell after Josh Williams had set the teenager up. In the second phase of the attack, the ball came in and Josh Dempsey jumped with Hotine, the ball ran loose and Powell fired home but referee Mr Hobbs blew for a foul on the keeper.

Jordan Greenwood, Tom Welling and Powell again went close before the break with Taylor at the other end almost adding a third with a header that was cleared off the line.

Incredibly, that was to be Westbury's last clear chance of the game with a whole half remaining. The second half belonged almost entirely to the O's who created a dozen chances but failed to convert any of them. Westbury were restricted to the odd counter attack but keeper Perry only had one scrambling save to make from Josh Maguire to keep the score at 2-0.

Greenwood with a shot over the bar, Williams with a header that went the same way and Dempsey who headed wide were the first three to test the Westbury defence while Powell brought a brilliant save from Hotine from a goalbound header. Simon Lashley and Dempsey both were well over with free kicks and late on, there were further efforts from Powell (shot blocked), Dempsey (shot wide), Williams (headed wide), Bernard (volleyed wide) and two efforts from late sub Tom Hutton. Dempsey had the last effort into the ten minutes of stoppage time but he was wide with his effort.