Non-League and Academy football writer

I was at Slough Town’s Arbour Park ground on Friday night, to watch and report on PFC Victoria London’s home Combined Counties Football League Division One fixture with Windsor FC. PFC Victoria came into this game on the back of a hard fought 2-1 win over London Samurai Rovers, and they started this match in 15th place in the league table. Windsor started this game one place below PFC Victoria in the table, in 16th place, after 28 league matches played. Mateusz Czekalski’s PFC Victoria side would win this match 3-1, once again showing good game management as a team. Windsor would create an early chance in this match, on a bitterly cold night in Slough. As after Avantdili Akhsiashvili had received a pass to his feet on the right-hand side of the home team’s penalty area, the skilful winger would hit a powerful effort on goal, which was well parried by Filip Chałupniczak, in the PFC Victoria goal.

PFC Victoria would take the lead in the match, despite Windsor having made the better start, in the eighth minute of the game. With Tymoteusz Supernak delivering a good cross into the centre of the Windsor penalty area (from the right flank), which found Maciej Tajs, who leapt up well, to head the ball into the left-hand corner of the goal, 1-0. Windsor would respond well, and shortly after Jamil Maxamed Yusuf’s free-kick from the edge of the PFC Victoria penalty area, had struck their wall, Avantdili Akhsiashvili would receive a pass out on the right flank, on the edge of the home team’s penalty area. He would then show some good skill with the ball, to take it past a defender and into the penalty area. However, Filip Chałupniczak did ever so well, to tip behind Akhsiashvili’s powerful effort to his right, behind for a corner-kick.

In the 26th minute of the game and from a set-piece, Windsor would draw level in the match. With Troy Williams meeting a free-kick delivery from the left flank, which bounced into the centre of the PFC Victoria penalty area, which Williams powerfully finished, first time and into the goal, 1-1. Windsor were pressing PFC Victoria well, but it was the home side who would finish the second half the stronger of the two sides. A couple of minutes after the unmarked Jakub Malczuk had headed over from a corner-kick into the Windsor penalty area, in the 36th minute of the game, the home side would make it 2-1. Kacper Kloc’s lofted ball (from a free-kick out on the left flank) into the Windsor penalty area, wasn’t gathered properly by the Windsor goalkeeper, under pressure, and he would drop the ball. And Maciej Tajs was on hand to quickly get to the loose ball, and finish low into the goal, 2-1. 

Just before the referee had sounded his whistle for half-time, a Windsor free-kick, from the left flank, would find Austen Edwards, on the right-hand side of the PFC Victoria penalty area, but Edwards’ powerful effort went wide, across the face of the goal. Windsor would see more of the ball during the early stages of the second half. After Troy Williams had managed to get to a flicked header in behind the home team’s defence, the Windsor centre-forward would challenge the outrushing Filip Chałupniczak, for the ball on the edge of the penalty area. However, Williams’ low effort went wide of the goal. 

The Windsor goalkeeper, Cairo Jacob Benjamin Richards, would gather a decent effort on his goal, from the edge of the Windsor penalty area, before Windsor worked the ball into a couple of decent forward areas, but without being able to really test the PFC Victoria goalkeeper. After Liam Stabler had received substitute Milan Czerwonka’s pass on the left-hand side of the Windsor penalty area, Stabler would power an effort over the goal. Despite Windsor really pushing for a very late leveller, their task was made more difficult, after Austen Edwards was sin-binned on the 89th minute of the game. And a hard working and resilient PFC Victoria side, would go on to make sure of the win, with an excellent solo goal on 93 minutes. Substitute Milan Czerwonka, who is a fine striker, but whose main position is as a goalkeeper, would get to the ball out on the right flank. However, Czerwonka showed some really impressive pace with the ball to take the ball forward, a great distance down the right flank. Past a defender and now into the Windsor penalty area with only the goalkeeper to stop him, the 17 year old would cleverly finish into the goal, prompting great celebrations from him and his teammates, 3-1.

Once again, PFC Victoria showed some really good game management, to see out quite long spells of good possession in their half of the pitch, for Windsor. However, they worked hard as a team, to make sure of the win. PFC Victoria player Carlos Angulo (18) was my player of the match. He put in a very good performance at right-back, reading the game well and defending well throughout the match, in what was only his second appearance for the club. Maciej Tajs also had a fine game, on Friday night. The PFC Victoria player scored two well taken goals, as well as doing some good work in the forward areas of the pitch. And a special mention to late PFC Victoria substitute, Milan Czerwonka, with the goalkeeper, turned forward (he has played for PFC Victoria at youth level as a centre-forward) scoring a fantastic late solo goal to seal the win in style.