Molesey looked to follow up their weekend victory over Knaphill in the cup with a long and daunting trip to North London as they took on Wembley, writes David Morgan.

The first 20 minutes set the tone for the whole 90 minutes when the game quickly became a stalemate in midfield with neither side looking comfortable about taking the game by the scruff of the neck and taking control over their opponents.

The only two chances in the half both fell to Molesey and consisted of a free kick that Moses Spencer headed tamely to the keeper and a Lewis Ackerman shot from 20 yards that was easily kept out.

Molesey started the second half by trying to force the issue and taking on their opponents but yet again the game quickly levelled out in the midfield with both sides seemingly unwilling to try to do any more than the bare minimum in attack.

Sam Lampard hit a volley well over the bar when in a position to do better.

This was followed by Ian Lishmund taking on and beating two Wembley defenders and then tamely shooting straight at Dominic Cassells in the Wembley goal.

It wasn't long after this that Lishmund was replaced by Aimee Blessing, the former seemingly suffering some cramp relatively early in the game.

Then after Steve Webb saw Lewis Ackerman put a one on one well wide he hooked off both of the ineffective strikers and replaced them with Ashley Fashanu and Arnold Tawonezvi who proved to be equally ineffective when going forwards.

Molesey had two great chances to win the game in injury time when first of all Ashley Lodge stepped up and put a little too much curl on a free kick that ended up hitting the outside of the post and going wide.

This was followed two minutes later by Andy Graves putting in a delicious cross and when Ross Chalke rose alone to head the ball into the corner Molesey thought they had stolen the three points from the dour encounter.

However, Molesey cheers quickly turned to jeers when after putting the ball in the net, the assistant referee flagged for offside.

This sparked fervent Molesey protests but only after the referee had blown the final whistle.

Molesey will be looking at their four ineffective strikers for the reason they didn't score any goals but will remain upbeat about the tight defense which saw Colin Harris untested all through the game.