Plymouth 0-1 Wycombe: Match Report

30 January 2016 18:34

Gozie Ugwu strike stuns promotion-chasing Plymouth

Gozie Ugwu scored Wycombe's third-minute winner as they upset promotion-chasing Plymouth 1-0 at Home Park.

Ugwu got Wycombe off to a flying start when he smashed the ball home from close range following a goalmouth scramble.

On 15 minutes injured Wycombe keeper Alex Lynch was replaced by 46-year-old reserve Barry Richardson, playing his first competitive match since a November 2005 Football League Trophy appearance for Doncaster Rovers.

He was rarely tested, though, and it was the visitors who continued pressing. Ugwu was denied, from close range again, by a brilliant block tackle from Plymouth skipper Curtis Nelson on 34 minutes.

Plymouth striker Reuben Reid then had penalty appeals waved away after being felled as he went to shoot.

Wanderers' Michael Harriman cleared Nelson's goal-bound shot off the line following substitute Graham Carey's 56th-minute corner.

On 71 minutes Luke McCormick made two reaction saves to deny Matt Bloomfield while Carey did his best to test Richardson from a dipping 30-yard free-kick, which the keeper saved at the foot of his post.


Source: PA