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DorKING WANDererS reS 5

Cook-Appiah 2, Dickson, Asante 2
cHeSSINGToN & HooK UNITeD 1

baptiste

Combined Counties League 26th of August 2019 Meadowbank

Combined Counties League 24th of August 2019 Chalky Lane hessington & Hook United, playing in
Ctheir away strip of yellow and black were
stung by five goals in a game played in the
scorching heat and as the scoreline suggests,
dominated by Dorking Wanderers.
Straight from the kick-off Dorking went
on the offensive, with Dennis Asante’s pace
causing problems for the United defence, and
it was his run on the left-wing, after 13 min-
utes, that created the chance for former Unit-
ed player Trae Cook-Appiah to score, after
goalkeeper Joshua Woodcock and defender
Nathan Upton kept out the first attempt.
The only bright spot for United, on the hot-
test August Bank Holiday Monday on record,
was Elliot Baptiste’s run past two defenders,
and finishing by bending the ball into the cor-
ner of the net, making it 1-1 with 21 minutes
on the clock.
A late foul on United’s skipper Dan Green-
resulted in him being replaced by Kieran Head, to be a lost cause, and so it proved. Dorking
and Green’s departure further compounded Chess- breaking in numbers made it 4-1 with still
ington & Hook’s woes. forty minutes to go. Adding insult to injury,
Two brilliant goals by Dorking and then a Cook-Appiah wriggled past three defenders
straight red card for Nathan Upton just be- to score his second and Wanderers fifth, and
fore half-time (when really a yellow card would in the process banishing the memory of their
have been appropriate), effectively ended any 1-4 home defeat to British Airways on the
chance of a United comeback. opening day of the season.
With United down to ten men, and at one Whilst Dorking hadn’t played for 8 days, two
point nine men when Ellis Lentell was sent to games in three days in the searing heat may
the sin bin, the second-half was always going have proved too much for United.