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York City 2-1 Bromley | Substitute Manny Duku heads home added time winner to complete second half turnaround
Match Result
LNER Community Stadium
Tuesday 13th Sep – 19:45
York City came from behind to earn their third National League win in the last four matches as the 10 men ran out 2-1 winners in the first midweek game at the LNER Community Stadium this season.
Omar Sowunmi opened the scoring under the lights in the 38th minute, but an own goal on the end of Maz Kouhyar’s corner levelled the game just after the hour mark.
Manny Duku came off the bench to score his first competitive City goal deep into added time as his side moved into the playoff places.
The Minstermen came into the match in fine form on the back of three games unbeaten, two of which were wins away from home. However, they faced a Bromley side who had also had a bright start to the season, sitting one point and a couple of places ahead of York.
The early signs were of an end-to-end game, the visitors having a chance straight from kick-off when Michael Cheek found Adam Marriott inside the box with a through ball who forced a good stop from Ethan Ross.
City got straight down the other end and had a chance of their own when Maz Kouhyar was found just outside the area and he curled a strike wide of the right post.
Ross was called into action again just after the 10-minute mark as Corey Whitely’s effort from distance was on target and forced the ‘keeper into a diving save.
A few minutes later Bromley goalkeeper Reice Charles-Cook was tested when Olly Dyson, Mitch Hancox, and Lenell John-Lewis combined well with the latter finding space to shoot and striking low and on target but ultimately simple for the shot stopper.
The Ravens saw a couple more chances through Cheek who shot on target but straight at Ross from a difficult angle inside the box and Jude Arthurs who got a deft touch on the end of a cross from the left but failed to direct it on target.
Again City got straight down the other end with Alex Hurst attacking down the left and he pulled the ball back to Kouhyar who struck on goal from the edge of the area which looked to be going in but for a Bromley body in the way.
With both sides having chances, it would be Bromley that would see one of these transpire into a half-time lead.
A free-kick from deep was nodded down into the path of Sowunmi who buried into the bottom left corner from close range.
Buoyed by their goal, The Ravens saw chances go begging early in the second half. Marriott with sights of goal from inside the box, the first he put straight at Ross but the second was much more difficult for the ‘keeper who excellently tipped over the bar.
The introduction of Duku shook things up in attack and he was involved immediately rising highest to meet a Hancox cross and winning a corner with his effort.
The resulting succession of corners would eventually lead to the equaliser as Kouhyar’s inswinging delivery created uncertainty around the edge of the six-yard box and found the back of the net via a touch from Bromley’s Billy Bingham.
City looked to press on for a winner but after Maxim Kouogun’s sending off for two yellow cards in the 88th minute, there was a feeling that a point would be a good result.
However, a push forward four minutes into added time yielded a corner and Kouhyar again stood over it.
He whipped in another inswinger and Duku brilliantly headed home on the end of it in front of the South Stand to light up the LNER on the Tuesday evening and secure maximum points.
The result puts the Minstermen 7th in the National League table ahead of a trip to Glanford Park to play bottom-place Scunthorpe United on Saturday.
York City (3-4-1-2): Ross (GK); Kouogun, Kerr, Sanders; Fallowfield, Pybus, Dyson (Greaves, 90’), Hancox (Whittle, 77’); Kouhyar, Hurst (Duku, 60’), John-Lewis
Subs not used: Whitley, Burgess
Goals: Own Goal (63’), Duku (90’)
Yellow Cards: Pybus
Red Cards: Kouogun
Bromley (5-3-2): Charles-Cook (GK); Arthurs (Dennis, 73’), Sowunmi, Webster, Reynolds, Forster; Bingham, Vennings (Coleman, 67’), Whitley; Cheek, Marriott (Alexander, 87’)
Subs not used: Hannam, Bradshaw
Goals: Sowunmi (38’)
Yellow Cards: Reynolds, Forster, Sowunmi, Bingham
Referee: Aaron Bannister
Attendance: 3,492
Waitrose & Partner’s Man of the Match: Ethan Ross
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