WOODLEY United suffered a 4-0 reverse at Oxford City Nomads in their Premier Division encounter on Saturday.

Both teams had early chances with the hosts’ Dan Collins shooting straight at Alex Reed on four minutes, while at the other end a Nathanael Robinson free-kick was headed over the crossbar.

It was Nomads who took the lead, however, when Matt Brown headed the opening goal from a free-kick in the seventh minute.

The lead was nearly doubled from a corner after nine minutes except for a fingertip save over the bar by Reed.

United responded with Robinson being flagged off side when one-on-one with the home keeper Luke Sanders following a defence-splitting pass from Ashley Ledger, while Ledger headed a Danny Horscroft free-kick straight at Sanders. However, this good passage of play by the visitors was undone in the 25th minute when Will McEachran extended the home side’s advantage.

Woodley continued to push forward with Carl Prestidge pulling a low cross back along the goal line to evade every one, while Robinson outran the defence from 40 yards only for his strike to be cleared for a corner.

Robinson was dangerous in the second half, seeing a free-kick go straight to Sanders, while the goalkeeper was alert to catch a lob from the Woodley forward.

United were enjoying the second half with Jake Nicholls seeing a shot cleared for a corner while Owen Davies also saw a goal-line cross evade the oncoming United players.

Looking to score, Woodley change formation to keep the momentum, but were undone in the 69th minute when the lively Siyanda Khawaja scored on the counter-attack from a visitors’ corner kick.

Nicholls set up Davies to fire over before Collins competed the scoring with an unmarked header from close range with 10 minutes remaining.

l AFC Aldermaston return to Division One East action following a week off when they host table-topping Virginia Water on Saturday (3pm).

The Atom Men currently sit 11th in the table with one win and two defeats from their three games, although they do have matches in hand on almost every team in the division.

Their last game was a 3-2 loss to Romsey Town in the FA Vase.