Cards in smash and grab
By Adam Summers

WOKING staged a smash and grab victory at the Wessex Stadium to stretch Weymouth's winless home run in the Blue Square Premier to five games.

The Terras were far the better side for much of the contest but they paid the price for not taking their chances on 80 minutes when Marvin Morgan made a great run and produced a cool finish to beat keeper Jason Matthews.

Prior to that Gavin McCallum struck a post and Sido Jombarti missed an open goal for the Terras who justifiably felt very hard done by at the final whistle.

For the first time in a long while Weymouth boss Jason Tindall was able to name an unchanged starting XI but he did make two changes on the bench.

Midfielder Paolo Vernazza returned from four games out with a foot injury while Conal Platt was also drafted into the squad.

The men who dropped out were suspended defender Joel Kitamirike and Danny Phillips.

The Weymouth skipper cut inside but took too much time to pull the trigger and allowed Jay Gasson to get a challenge in and clear.

The Cards' captain set up Adam Green with a shooting opportunity but his effort with the outside of his left boot was saved by Jason Matthews.

That was certainly a moment of concern for Weymouth but they responded with a great counter attack moments later.

Doe put McCallum down the right channel and after the Canadian had rounded Gasson he pulled the ball back across the box towards Wilfried Domoraud, who looked certain to get a shot in until Hutchinson made a fantastic intervention.

It was proving a very even contest and after Morgan and Bradley Quamina had tried their luck from distance for Woking, Weymouth put together another superb move on 29 minutes to test visiting keeper Nick Gindre for the first time.

Domoraud and Coutts linked together superbly with a neat give and go enabling the former to let fly from 25 yards but his effort was pushed over the bar.

It was then McCallum's turn to go close moments later. The Woking defence failed to clear their lines and when the ball fell to the forward's feet he stabbed a shot against the outside of a post. Suddenly the Cards were looking shaky and 60 seconds later Gindre slipped trying to make a clearance presenting a chance to Domoraud.

Unfortunately the Yeovil Town loanee's first touch let him down and that allowed Gasson to get a block in and stop him striking towards an unguarded net.

The Terras were clearly looking the more threatening side and immediately after the restart McCallum made a break down the right and pulled a cross back from the by-line which Gasson could only half clear. The ball looped up in the air and when Domoraud headed it down Coutts failed to make a clean connection and volleyed wide.

Woking replied with some pressure of their own before Tindall made a double switch on 55 minutes replacing Domoraud with Stuart Beavon and McCallum with Michael Malcolm. Weymouth's new strike pair certainly livened things up and gave the Cards' defence something different to think about, and on 62 minutes they linked well to present Jombarti with an open goal from six yards out which he embarrassingly missed.

The midfielder failed to sort his feet out and sent his final effort wide after Malcolm had latched on to Beavon's pass and superbly cut inside Gasson before laying the ball across the face of Gindre.

Platt came on for Coutts with 20 minutes to go but the next chance fell to Woking when a misjudgement by Doe allowed Morgan to break away.

The striker looked to be clean through but the impressive Bondz Ngala came across and applied enough pressure to kill the danger.

That seemed to buoy the visitors and with ten minutes remaining they silenced the home fans by taking a shock lead against the run of play.

Morgan lost his marker and made a fantastic diagonal run which was found by Goma Lambu, and when he cut inside he slipped the ball past Matthews and inside the near post. The hosts tried to respond but Woking's resolute defence kept them at bay, much to the disappointment of everyone in claret and blue who left the ground stunned.