Wasteful Windsor lose to Deportivo Galicia in the 104th minute

Georg Gudjohnsen

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Deportivo Galicia FC 2 - Windsor FC 1

Windsor rued missing a series of first half chances as they went down to a narrow 2-1 defeat at Deportivo Galicia FC on Saturday afternoon, the hosts’ winner coming in the 104th minute.

Garry Haylock's side were chasing a fourth-straight away win in the Combined Counties League Division 1 and might well have walked away with one had they taken their chances and managed to build on the first half lead that was given to them by Georg Gudjohnsen.

Haylock was forced to make a series of changes from the Royalists' team that edged out Westside 1-0 in mid-week - the side's third 1-0 away success on the spin - with first choice goalkeeper Cairo Richards turning his ankle in training. That led to 16-year-old Leighton Rudd making his debut for Windsor in goal, but the visitors kept with their 3-5-2 formation which has served them so well on the road in recent weeks.

Windsor were excellent in the first half and could easily have been four goals to the good inside 23 minutes had they taken their chances. Gudjohnsen and Nathan Green were both guilty of poor finishing, but Gudjohnsen did make amends on the stroke of half time when he despatched a neat half-volley into the right corner of the net from six yards out.

This was no less than Windsor deserved against a Deportivo side who looked a shadow of the team that inflicted a 3-0 defeat on Windsor at Holloways Road earlier in the season.

However, Deportivo did show up for the second period and made Windsor pay for their profligacy in front of goal.

A change of formation saw them put three players up front, matching Windsor's back three, which left their own central defenders one-on-one with Gudjohnsen and Green. This could have proved their undoing, when Gudjohnsen was sent clean through in the 65th minute, but the striker pulled his hamstring as he bore down on goal, and this proved to be a major turning point in the game.

Substitute striker Omar Miller-Talaste couldn’t match Gudjohnsen’s intensity and Deportivo began to play around Windsor's press.

The hosts scored their equaliser in the 70th minute and it's fair to say it had been coming. It looked like the game might finish in a 1-1 draw, but the referee Philip Chaykin found 15 minutes of injury time and Deportivo snatched the winning goal and all three points in the 104th minute.

Windsor Team: Rudd, Supernak, White-Glean, Kambamba, Jenkins, Matani, Gudjohnsen, Smith, Rand- Brade, Peliccia. Subs: Miller-Talaste, Al Shubasi, Inman, Watson, Healey.