Guernsey thrash Roffey 8-0 for biggest win in 11 years

Sam Murray (left) scored a hat-trick for Guernsey FC to take his tally to 12 for the season

Guernsey FC ended their three-game losing streak in style as they thrashed Roffey 8-0 in the Southern Combination Premier Division.

The victory equalled the club's second-biggest win in their history as they moved up to the top half of the table.

Jacob Fallaize headed in a seventh-minute corner to send the Green Lions on their way before Ross Allen finished in similar style just two minutes later.

Roffey had their goalkeeper forced off with injury and his replacement's first job was to pick the ball from his own net as Allen blasted in from close range after the visitors failed to clear a 25th-minute corner.

Three minutes later it was 4-0 as Charlton Gauvain put Sam Murray through one-on-one to score before Fallaize made it 5-0 four minutes from half time.

The hosts began to target their club-record 11-0 win which has stood since January 2014 when Murray got his second five minutes after the break as he tapped in Brandon Wallace's cross for Guernsey's sixth.

Murray got his hat-trick five minutes later with a calm finish from Seb Vance's pass before they hit the bar from a corner soon after.

Fin Patterson's excellent finish into the bottom corner made it 8-0 with 21 minutes to go as Guernsey passed their mark for the most goals scored in a game this season which was set in the 7-6 win over Shoreham last month.

The last time the Green Lions had scored eight goals in a game was their 8-2 win at Staines Town in February 2022, having also hit eight goals in an 8-1 win over Three Bridges in September 2014 and 8-0 wins over Croydon in September 2012 and Knaphill in December 2011.

"It's really pleasing, the performance was good," Guernsey manager Tony Vance told BBC Radio Guernsey.

"I think probably in all fairness we could have had a few more goals.

"The opposition weren't one of the strongest, but ultimately I don't think we allowed them to play.

"We were very front foot, the formation dictated that if we got it right and people were impactful in their performance then we would be able to turn the screw and we did that consistently.

"The players were outstanding and in the way they went about their jobs, their roles and we could have had a few more goals, so a decent decent performance and a great result."