Oxford City romped to their best win of the season with a comprehensive 5-0 win over Alfreton Town at the MGroup Stadium this evening.

Goals from Man of the Match Isaac Westendorf, Darnell Johnson, DJ Campton-Sturridge,Josh Parker from the spot and Tom Scott saw City end a three game winning run with a superb team effort in which a first clean sheet of the season was an added bonus.

City may have conceded in every previous game  but they also score in every game and tonight it took just nine minutes for them to take a lead that they never looked like relinquishing..

It came from an Alfreton throw which went wrong and allowed the Hoops to spring forward. Campton-Sturridge raced into space on the right and squared the ball for Westendorf who took his time and then drilled the ball beyond visiting keeper George Willis for his second goal of the season.

Alfreton relied on the long throw of Adam Lund to get the ball into the City box but the returning Johnson and centre-back partner Charlie Wiggett stood up to that well and keeper Sam Lewis was relatively untroubled in the first half.

At the other end Alfreton took turns to kick lumps out of the bruised but unflappable Westendorf and City continued to ask all the questions until Johnson rose in the 40^th minute to outjump his defender and power a header past Willis to give his side a deserved 2-0 lead at the break.

The crucial thing was not to concede an early goal in the second half and Lewis made sure that didn’t happen with a good save from Lewis Salmon when another Lund long throw landed in space and City saw Salmon fill it before Lewis leapt to save his low shot with a crucial block.

Moments later it was 3-0 and Game Over when Westendorf repaid the favour for the opener as he moved the ball into the path of the rampaging Campton-Sturridge who touched the ball into space then powered it across Willis for his first goal for the club.

It could have been even more impressive had Willis not made an outstanding save from Westendorf before the otherwise unstoppable striker  was upended in the box  to give Parker the chance to roll the penalty home and make it 4-0 after 71 minutes.

There was a moment of fortune as the visitors hit the post with ten minutes left but had it gone in then it would have merely blotted the copybook and ruined the clean sheet rather than influence the outcome. Instead Scott burst clear to finish a McEachran pass in injury time and City had gone from a 5-1 loss on Saturday to a 5-0 win tonight

An excellent turnaround, and an excellent night's work all round.

CITY

Lewis, Wilson, Johnson, Burroughs, Wiggett, Ashby, Scott, Campton-Sturridge (Daniel 72), McEachran, Westendorf (Humphrey-Ewers 76) , Parker

SUBS

Treml, Humphrey- Ewers, Bampoh, McConnell, Roddy, Lacey

Att:  527

Report by Chris Williams, pictures Simon Godfrey