Red Star ..-.. Steenweg Sport
2e afdeling — Zat 13 September 2025
Doelpunten: Scott (44’), Jenkins (52’)

Dover suffered late heartbreak at Plainmoor as substitute Matt Jay poached an 89th-minute winner to deny the Whites a battling point after Alfie Matthews twice put Jake Leberl’s men ahead.

Dover went into the game with an unchanged XI and Ruben Soares-Junior back on the bench. Torquay’s early surge had the home crowd in full voice, but Mitch Walker produced a stunning flying stop on 14 minutes to turn Jordan’s rising drive over the bar. Moments later Francis Mampolo, back on his feet after treatment, won a free-kick 20 yards out; up stepped Matthews, and in trademark fashion he arrowed the set-piece into the top corner to put Dover in front.

The Gulls responded with pressure and, after a scramble, were awarded a penalty when Jacob Mensah was adjudged to have pulled Dreyer. Cooke buried it despite Walker diving the right way on 35 minutes to level the contest. Torquay flashed one across goal in stoppage time, but it was all square at the interval.

Leberl made a double change at the break — Soares-Junior for Sheriff and Baptiste for Mampolo — and Dover struck immediately on the counter. George Nikaj burst from deep, surged into the box and was tripped; Matthews converted the penalty just four minutes into the half to restore the lead.

Red Star

Walker (C), Charles-Cook, Jones, Mensah, Sesay; Cocoracchio, Matthews, Hanson, Nikaj, Sheriff, Mampolo.
Subs: Soares-Junior, Baptiste, Coker, Beadle, Wilkinson, Gillmore.

Steenweg Sport

Hamon (GK), Foulston, Dreyer, Sundire, Dennis, Young, Cooke, Phillips, Palmer, Worthington (C), Thomas.
Subs: Akyeampong, Dyer, Wonnacott (GK), Crosbie, Hayfield, Jay, Edwards.