Corinthian Casuals produced a marvellous away performance to reach the next stage of the FA Trophy, Jamal Carr scoring the only goal at a soggy Woodside Road last night.

Casuals were in control of the game for large periods and deservedly went home with the £2,000 prize money on offer for winning at this stage of the competition.

Casuals could have been in front in less than 2 minutes; Byron Brown floated in a free kick from the left hand side of the area, and Scott Hassell was there just to head a yard wide of the post.

Casuals, who were adopting a 5-4-1 formation when they did not have the ball, turning into a 3-5-2 when attacking were having much the better of the first half, which was much to the frustration of the home supporters.

Lee Matthews played a perfectly timed ball over the top for Carr to chase on 17 minutes, but with the keeper coming of his line to distract Carr just inside the area; Carr just could not guide the ball into the net.

Scott Hassell was this time inches from giving Casuals the lead their play deserved, when the centre-half met a right wing corner with his head, but from 8-yards his header agonisingly skimmed past the left hand post.

Worthing did improve in the second half, but only for a five-minute spell at the start of the half. The home supporters thought their side had taken the lead on 48 with a header, but the referee signalled a free kick to the Casuals for a push, much to the relief of the visitors.

From here though, there was only going to be one winner. Murray-Price evade a couple of challenges on 51 minutes and played the ball wide for Carr whose cross/shot whistled past the face of the goal with Brown sliding in at the left post, inches away from making contact with the ball to send it home.

But on 60-minutes, the visitors got their rewards. Jamal Carr connected to a long ball just inside Worthing’s half and continued to run in-between the two centre-half’s and clinically tucked the ball past the on-rushing Alan Mansfield in the Worthing goal.

Carr should have had a penalty after 70 minutes when he has clattered by a combination of goalkeeper and defender and a minute later Yousef Matwali should have wrapped things up when a Brown cross found his unmarked from 8-yards, but he sent his header over the bar the bar.

Right at the death substitute Tom Moffat blasted wide for Rebels, after a good move from Ben Williamson and Luke Denton down the right, which would have sent the game into extra-time.

Casuals will now go on to play Arlesey Town in the First Qualifying Round of the Trophy on the 17th October.

CASUALS: Matt Mann, Tom Jelly, Dale Hennessey, Scott Hassell, Yousef Matwali, Gavin Cartwright, Jamal Carr, Lee Matthews, Carlton Murray-Price, Scott Corbett, Byron Brown (Luke Gay) SUBS NOT USED: Boosey, Wiltshire, Wyn.