Without a game last week, as Ashford United were still in the F.A. Trophy, Jersey made two changes to the side that had won at A.F.C. Croydon Athletic and then drawn at home with Sittingbourne. James Queree returned for the injured Jonny Le Quesne and took over the armband too. James Carr swapped roles with Fraser Barlow at left back, with Barlow on the bench where youngster Harry Mackenzie replaced Jay Giles.

Sheppey in 16th (3-1-5 13-24) were three places below Jersey who were also on ten points but with three games in hand and a 16 better goal difference. They made three starting and four substitute changes to the team that had drawn 1-1 at Hassocks last Saturday. Tamas Angbaduba, Daniel Bradshaw and Dieko Falade, all previously on the bench, started in place of Billy Bennett, Jacob Lambert and Rolando Onu who all dropped out of the squad along with substitute Ben Clark. Bradshaw took over as skipper from Bennett with Malakai Hyman, Tommy Linkson, Jack O'Neill and Essa Jadama all being added to the bench.

Jersey started the sharper before Sheppey worked their way into the game and started playing possession football without ever threatening. Jersey created the first chance after 18 minutes when Lorne Bickley in the left channel on the edge of the box curled the ball towards the bottom right corner. Adam Molloy at full stretch palmed it away into the path of Miguel Carvalho coming in from the right but he could not keep his attempt down. A strong contender for the miss of the season came five minutes later when Carvalho pounced on a defensive error and centred from the right byline to the unmarked Toby Ritzema at the far post but he did not get over it and cleared the bar with his side-footed attempt.

Bickley surged forward in the left channel once again after 34 minutes and his powerful strike only just cleared the bar. In added time Adam Trotter hit a well struck attempt from twenty-two yards just wide of the left post.

After the interval Queree saw a strong shot hit his own man, Carvalho, before Sheppey scored against the run of play. Dieko Falade fed Archie Johnson, overlapping on the left, and was there to volley home his cross from five yards.

Jersey equalised with a penalty just before the hour. Tamas Angbadusa caught Ritzema just inside the box and Queree stepped to send Molloy the wrong way with a shot to the bottom right corner.

Play went from end to end without much resulting until Julien Anau hit a thirty-yard attempt that Euan Van der Vliet parried just far away from Bradshaw to make his attempt from the rebound too difficult.

Jersey had brought on all their outfield substitutes in an attempt to win the match when they were hit by a sucker punch in stoppage time. A long ball forward by Dami Olorunnisimo was half cleared by Luke Campbell to Luke Watson who played it back towards Queree. Anau read it, nipped in first, rounded Van der Vliet and tapped home the winner. There was still time for substitute James Sunley to bring out a close in save from Molloy before Jersey were consigned to their first league defeat.