FA Cup

GOAL HERO OSOBU IS THE VICTOR

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 September 2022

MARLOW 0 UXBRIDGE 1
By Tom Major

VICTOR Osobu’s ninthminute goal was enough to send Uxbridge into the next round of the FA Cup on a positive afternoon’s work at Marlow.
Osobu’s goal within the first ten minutes may have been the first moment of the game, but it also urned out to be the most important.
Credit must go to the defence of Uxbridge, who remained defensively resolute to hold on for an important Cup victory, despite having to deal with the sending off of Curtis Ujah.
They will hope to take the clean sheet and win into the next round as momentum, where ...

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