Oxford City’s youngsters were beaten 2-0 in the final of The Oxfordshire Senior Cup this afternoon as second half goals from Ollie Nadin, Joey Aust, Otis Castle and Adam Smith gave Kidlington their first ever win in the competition

On a glorious sunny afternoon at Thame United’s ASM Stadium the first half saw the two teams cancel each other out. That was perhaps understandable given that half the Kidlington team were once at City and half the City side have been on loan at Yarnton Road.

That led to a remarkably incident-free first 45 minutes with no shots on target at either end but the next 15 minutes provided more than enough incident to make up for that.

First City striker Charlie Bacon managed to lean back and fire an early half chance over, but almost immediately Kidlington’s own first strike at goal led to the opener.

It came from a free kick that Kidlington claimed should be a penalty. Instead the set piece was awarded right on the line. Same difference as Nadin curled the set piece round the wall and into the bottom right corner to make it 1-0 after 51 minutes.

Now the game opened up and on 61 minutes Aust gave Kidlington a huge boost as he nodded home from close range against his former employees to make it 2-0. The likeable Aust’s moment was rather taken away from him as a fan encroached on to the pitch to confront City keeper Max Treml, leading to a lengthy delay as the fan was escorted out of the ground and a bizarre atmosphere before everything calmed down and a game of football broke out once more.

City, average age 18, gave it their best but still found it hard to get a sight at goal as Kidlington fought for every ball and in the end the team that created the better chances deservedly lifted the enormous trophy after first Castle netted a third then Smith economically slotted home a fourth in the 12 minutes of added time to seal victory for the team in green.

It’s been quite a season for the City youngsters with FA Cup success and now a journey to the final of the county cup. All valuable experience and one result does not dim a very bright future.

CITY

Treml, Abdi, Ulas, McConnell (Mirnam 32), Moir, Took-Oxley, Daniel, Kauan (Gerald 90), Njogu (Heap 65), Stahi (Webb 65), Bacon

SUBS

Stowell

Report by Chris Williams, pictures Steve Daniels