Tonbridge Angels (0) 3 Richards 38,55 Read 90+1
Sevenoaks Town (0) 0
Attendance: 206
Admission: £7 Senior
Programme: £1
Mileage: 38/2,807
Strangely for a game that produced two red cards, if the game had the bite of a local derby then Sevenoaks could have been a banana skin waiting to happen but the home side controlled the game and emerged very comfortable winners.
A scrummage in front of goal led to a corner for Tonbridge from which a shot struck the post. Sevenoaks replied after 15 minutes with a shot from Michael Dalton that was well saved, low to his left, by Jonny Henly.
That proved to be Sevenoaks sole flourish in the first period but it took until the 38th minute before Tonbridge finally broke the deadlock. Tom Parkinson’s cross was collected by Jared Small who set up Jack Richards to score from close range.
Two reckless challenges, far too close together in terms of time elapsed, saw successive yellows for Wasiri Williams to make the lonely walk to the dressing room a couple of minutes before anyone else.
Tonbridge came out for the second half, hot themselves onto the front foot and were never under any threat. Ten minutes into the half they doubled their advantage when Richards rose one challenge to drive home a shot between Ben Bridle-Card and his near post.
Two-up and a man advantage, Tonbridge were able to play with a freedom that created chances to be spurned. Small drove a ball across the face of the goal that begged a touch and sent a header wide. Bridle-Card was just about equal to an audacious lob from Turner before, in the 65th minute, Liam King replicated Williams’ act of the first half launching into two unnecessary challenges within a couple of minutes of each other and saw red as a result of two yellows.
Despite parity of the playing staff, nothing changed in the direction of play with chances aplenty for the Angels.
Finally, with a minute left on the clock, Sevenoaks did force Henly into action with a double save. But this was the prelude to an added-time third when two substitutes, Adem Ramadan and Alex Read combined for the latter to have a tap-in at the far post.
So it was into the second round of the Velocity Trophy and the professionals will point to a job done and look forward to the next round. From a supporter’s point of view, a tie at Worthing on a Tuesday evening leaves you questioning whether there was actually any reward.
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