Tonbridge (0) 0
Dartford (1) 1 Champion 18
Att. 1,139
Entrance: £6 Senior
Programme: £2.00
Mileage: 26/3,934
Match Report
An absorbing encounter, in front of a bumper derby day crowd of 1,139 was ultimately won by high-flying Dartford but Tonbridge ran their visitors close and, to my mind, deserved a point from the match.Tonbridge welcomed to the club central defender Olly Shultz from Dover and after a naturally nervous opening few minutes he settled well into a central defensive pairing with the evergreen Ben Judge, Sonny Miles switching to right back.
After an bright opening ten minutes for the home side, Dartford started showing their championship potential and took the lead on 18 minutes. It was a disappointing goal for Tommy Warrilow’s men to concede; a Jon Wallis corner was met by an unchallenged header from Tom Champion into the far corner. Two goals in the previous Saturday’s defeat at Farnborough were conceded in similar fashion and the manager will despair that the same problem would surface again.
Tonbridge had enough of the second half to suggest that a point would have been a fair result but resilient defending and the lack of a little fortune with the ball failing to drop in the right place in the box would deny them the reward.
Woking’s home defeat leaves Dartford with a better than outside chance of catching them at the top of Conference South and they will be glad to have come away from a testing encounter at Longmead with maximum points.
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