Early and late strikes condemn Worksop to defeat against Oxford City.

Craig Parry’s side found themselves a goal down inside the opening minute - and it didn't get any better from that.

Manager Craig Parry was disappointed with the manner in which his side conceded the early opener: “We give the goal away from our own throw-in, and then we are up against it.

“Then it became the same old story for us away from home at the moment.”

Despite the defeat, the Worksop manager felt there were still positive elements to the performance: “I thought we kept the ball well, there were times where we were dominating the game.

“But we didn’t take our chances and it feels like a game that has gotten away from us.”

On the difficulties in the final third, Parry added: “I think when we did put the balls into the right areas, we just had to throw ourselves at it a little bit more.

“We needed to have more of that killer instinct to attack the ball in numbers.”

Worksop found themselves a goal down just after the first minute when Isaac Westendorf broke away down the left flank, before slipping a ball across the box for marauding full-back Jacob Roddy to tap home.

The first sight on goal for the Tigers came when Aleks Starcenko met Joe Leesley’s cross in the box, however the midfielder could not divert his header on target and saw it trickle past the post.

Hoops’ keeper Joe Lewis was able to comfortably catch Deegan Atherton’s volley from the edge of the box as the right back looked to open his account for the club. Tommy Taylor was next to be called into action out of the two goalkeepers when he was forced to parry Josh Ashby’s low drive behind for a corner.

A slip in the Worksop backline set Westendorf away down the left hand side once again, this time the striker picked out Tom Scott who clipped his effort off the foot of the post. The hosts defence proved to be impenetrable for the remainder of the contest, despite the bombardment of crosses into the box from the Tigers.

Westendorf would get his reward for his positive work up top when he tapped home on the counter attack a few minutes from time to double Oxford’s lead.