A double on her debut for Iesha Swaby in a five-goal first half from Dulwich Hamlet made sure we saw off Farnham Town with a 5-0 win and made it through to the semi-finals of the Isthmian Cup.

Our opponents were only formed in March this year and play in the South East Counties Surrey Premier Division, where they’ve won all eight of their opening games so it was tough to know what to expect going into the fixture.

The uncertainty led to a quiet first ten minutes, where both teams looked to settle into the game and test the quality of their opposition.

Swaby, who just signed from Billericay Town, just ten minutes into her debut fires us ahead. She picked up the ball in the penalty area and coolly tucked it into the bottom corner.

Building on from the opener, captain Asia Harbour-Brown gave us a two-goal cushion in the twenty-first minute from a corner, the original ball in eventually fell to our captain who slotted home.

Just five minutes later, Angie Dunbar-Bonnie got in the action, their goalkeeper seemed to grab hold of the ball before spilling it in front of Angie, but she still had a lot of work to do. She skilfully went round a defender on the goal-line before tapping the ball in.

What had been an already incredible first half just got better when Anna Jowle scored in the twenty-ninth minute, she capitalised on another goalkeeper error and gave us our fourth before the half-hour mark.

Swaby made it a memorable debut as she got her second thirty-eight minutes in, from outside the box she pulled off a stunner, a lovely curling shot which ended up in the top corner.

Dulwich went into the break with a 5-0 lead, after what was a brilliant first-half display.

The hard work done in the first 45 minutes, we kept on applying the pressure but couldn’t add any more goals after the break which gave us a 5-0 win at Champion Hill with an attendance on a Wednesday night in the cup of 190 people.

Tash Stephens, Tia Searle, Lucy Monkman, Morgan Searle and Eleanor Hutchings all came on as the Hamlet made five changes to make sure we’re fresh for QPR on Sunday.

We face QPR in the league at the SkyEx Community Stadium on the 27th October at 2pm, as we look to build a strong start to the season!