WANDS IN CARD FEST AS MOORS MARCH ON

Dallas 17, 63 (pen), Sbarra 72

SOLIHULL Moors seized on an ill-disciplined Dorking Wanderers display to end their four-match losing run with a comfortable victory at Meadowbank.

Marc White’s Wands had Joe Cook sent off and a flurry of players booked by referee James Durkin as Moors took control courtesy of two goals from Andrew Dallas – who also missed a penalty – and one from Joe Sbarra.

“It’s hard not to lean on the officiating today, but credit to Solihull and Neal [boss Neal Ardley] for getting back on track with a win,” White said.

“We have key players missing who are returning from injury soon, we have to remain positive and reset ahead of Aldershot next week.”

New signing from Darlington, Mark Beck, was making his Moors debut and he got in on the action early, guiding a Dallas cross just wide.

But the visitors did get reward for their positive start on 17 minutes when Callum Howe’s header back across goal from a corner ball nodded home by Dallas from a yard out.

Ardley’s men continued to take control and were surely out of sight on 42 minutes when Cook was sent off for pulling down Dallas as the last man.

Dallas stepped up from the spot, only to see his kick saved by Wands keeper Dan Lincoln to his left.

In contrast, Dorking had created very little in the final third but Harry Ottaway spurned a golden chance shortly after the restart, treading on the ball as it fell for him kindly at the back post and scuffing the ball into the hands of Ryan Boot.

Moors were handed a second penalty by referee Durkin on 63 minutes, this time Isaac Philpott was the man guilty of the foul, and Dallas made no mistake, sending Lincoln the wrong way, tucking the ball into the bottom left corner.

Sbarra capped his return to action from injury by climbing off the bench and grabbing a third goal for his side on 72 minutes, latching onto the lively Beck’s flick on and racing through on goal, driving the ball home clinically when facing up Lincoln one on one.

A man down and three goals behind, Wanderers kept coming and went close to netting a late consolation through Jimmy Muitt and Niall McManus cutting in from the left.

Moors boss Ardley said: “Both teams have come in off of defeats and have injury problems, but we know that on home soil Dorking are very good going forward.

“So we had to work on our shape, make sure we were defensively sound and be ready for the speed of the game, and we knew we’d create chances from there.

“In the end we could have been two or three more up by half-time and we did enough in the second half to see the game out.” ★★★★★