Golden goal victory for Guernsey

Guernsey celebrate their golden goal winner

Guernsey beat UCL Academicals 4-3 in golden goal extra-time to progress to the next round of the Hockey Association Trophy on Sunday.

The Sarnians were 3-1 up against the former students before two converted short corners levelled the scores.

Guernsey had a goal disallowed before full-time but won by scoring in the first minute of extra time.

Player/coach Ben Allberry told the BBC: "I'm happy with the result but we need to learn from our performance."

In the previous round Guernsey won through a Golden Goal scored in almost the last minute away against Eastbourne.

We should have killed it off earlier in the game

Ben Allberry

Allberry added: "It was nice to kill it off but I think we should have killed it off earlier in the game."

Captain Andy Whalley agreed lessons had to be learnt: "We did exactly the same in the last round, we were 3-1 up. I think we've really got to learn to kill a game.

"Getting ourselves ahead in a game, we're good at that bit. It's when we're comfortable, we don't know how to get the fourth and fifth, we just tend to sit back a little bit."

Guernsey will now travel to Cirencester on 23 November 2008.