CLINICAL U’S JUST TOO HOT AT MOORS

SUTTON UNITED boss Paul Doswell saw his side maintain their impressive run of league form with victory over rock-bottom Solihull, but admitted that luck had also been on their side.

Ross Lafayette handed them a 30th-minute lead, but the sides would have been going in at the break all square had Moors midfielder George Carline not been denied by the woodwork soon after.

“In football matches you need a bit of luck,” the Sutton boss admitted: “We knew that George Carline is fantastic in the air. He’s got into the box and it’s a great header. He’s unlucky that it has hit the inside of the post and come out. We needed that little bit of luck, but I think we deserved the win overall.

“It’s these types of wins that determine where you finish in the league. It was a hard game and Solihull threw a lot at us in the second half, especially the long throw that they had so we had to defend very well.

“But we were clinical with the chances that we had – good finishes from Lafayetts and Dundas – and it was a well-deserved away win.

“The biggest complaint from us was that we couldn’t see how the first ‘goal’ was offside. First the cross was played backwards and then Craig [Dundas] came from behind a defender. We weren’t particularly happy at that point.”

Doswell was referring to an effort after just six minutes when the striker looked to have headed a Tom Bolarinwa cross into the net to hand the visitors the perfect start.

Instead they broke the deadlock on the half-hour when sloppy defending from the Moors allowed Lafayette to slot home with Dundas wrapping the points up three mintues from the end.

Solihull caretaker manager Gary Whild said: “I think the players are trying as best they can but they need a little bit of help and I think that won’t come so much on the coaching side, but by freshening up the dressing room a little bit.”

An announcement regarding the new Moors manager is expected this week.