Jersey Bulls win at Sevenoaks to keep up play-off hopes
· Yahoo Sports
Jersey Bulls boosted their play-off hopes with a 1-0 win at Sevenoaks Town in Isthmian League South East.
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The islanders, who are unbeaten in 2026, move back into fifth place after a third win in four games.
They are two points clear of sixth-placed Faversham Town, who have three games in hand, while Bulls have played at least two more games than the rest of their rivals.
James Queree gave Jersey the perfect start as he put his side 1-0 up with a fourth-minute penalty after Toluope Jonah was penalised for handball.
It proved to be the decisive moment of a game with few clear-cut chances as Lorne Bickley twice went close in the opening half hour for the Bulls.
Miguel Carvalho forced an excellent close-range save from home goalkeeper Jordan Perrin after he had spilled Toby Ritzema’s 34th-minute shot.
Perrin produced another excellent save to keep the Oaks in the game as he acrobatically tipped substitute James Sunley’s venomous strike over the bar 18 minutes after the break.
The hosts failed to trouble Euan van der Vliet in the Jersey goal in an even second half as Bulls kept a third successive clean sheet.
"We weren't at our best," Bulls manager Elliot Powell told BBC Radio Jersey.
"But I think at this stage of the season, especially when you're the game before everyone else, when you got your counterparts, your opponents from the rest of the league coming down to watch you tonight, it's just about getting a result.
"I didn't really ever feel that the result was overly in danger, maybe with the exception of a 15-minute spell in either half, but other than that I thought we controlled the game and it was played sort of how we wanted it to be played.
"It's probably becoming a little bit of a mantra for us really, we know what we're good at, we know what we're not good at, we need to make games as predictable as possible for us to be competitive and I thought you saw that again tonight."