Plenty of thrills as Blues surge past Dulwich

With only 40 seconds played, Dulwich had their only real scoring opportunity for the whole game.

From all of 25 yards, Sanchez Ming with a free-kick drove a high ball into the Police goal area, which took everyone by surprise.

Keeper Mo Maan did not see the ball until the last second and just tipped the ball around the far post for a corner.

A great save so early in the game and one the Hamlet would live to regret.

Number six Rob Smith opened the scoring on six minutes, heading in a Craig Brown cross that helped the Metropolitan Police to eventually celebrate their sixth successive win.

Five minutes later, new signing Craig Carley headed home another cross to make it two.

Carley played a blinder and chased everything during the first half.

The Police were in total control and even their captain, central midfielder Steve Sutherland, was confident enough to venture up field and try his luck with a 25-yard shot that was inches over the crossbar.

It took Dulwich 35 minutes to finally put a few more attacks together without much luck though.

Into the second half, the Police went off the boil slightly.

They soon regained their composure. A Paul Honey corner found Nicky Humphrey inside the six-yard box.

He just managed to get his foot to the ball but Dulwich keeper Phil Wilson got a hand to it and diverted the ball round the post for a corner.

Minutes later, George Jermy tried his luck with a 24-yard volley that was inches wide of the near post.

Police manager Jim Cooper then brought on Michael Cobden and Craig Wilkins as substitutes and Wilkins, with his first touch of the ball, tapped in a Cobden cross on 77 minutes to bring up goal number three.

With just nine minutes remaining, it was the turn of striker Gary Drewett to trap a good cross from Nathan Simpson before casually driving the ball into the back of the net to make it four.

As the game went into stoppage time, it was rather cruel to watch the Police put together 18 successive passes to one another before finally Dulwich Hamlet managed to gain possession.

The visitors were glad when the referee finally called it a day seconds later!

ATTENDANCE 103

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