Didcot Tn 5 (Hope 5, 83, Draycott 11, Stanley 45, Hartley 81)

Shrivenham 0

Didcot claimed their first win of the season, and with it also scored their first goals at home, with a resounding victory against Hellenic League side Shrivenham.

The outcome rarely looked in doubt after the home side took the lead in the second minute, when Josh Dutton-Black squared the ball for Liam Hope, who placed his left-foot shot high into the net for the first of his two goals.

Shrivenham did look dangerous on the break and an early sign that the visitors were not out of the tie came when Rich Saunders’s shot cannoned off Alex Stanley and away to safety.

But in the 11th minute a moment of calamitous defending gifted the home side a second.

Shrivenham keeper Luke Alford’s attempted pass to Darren Smart fell straight to Didcot striker Mark Draycott, who found the corner of the goal with a precise shot.

Draycott almost added another soon afterwards but hit a post with a downward header from close-range.

Shrivenham’s Frazer Joyce should have done better when he twice broke clear only to shoot straight at keeper Matt Trott.

Didcot whosettled things on the stroke of half-time.

Dutton-Black’s corner was parried by Alford straight into Alex Stanley’s path, who made no mistake from 12 yards.

The second half was less frantic and as a result there were fewer goalmouth incidents.

Matty Jack was denied by a brilliant save from Alford and Sampson’s surging run from midfield ended with his shot crashing back off the crossbar as Didcot continued to press.

But the home side had to wait until the closing stages to add two further goals.

Michael Bartley headed home James Mortimer-Jones’s free-kick to make it 4-0.

And in Didcot’s next attack Hope scored his second, and Didcot’s fifth, with a pin-point shot past Alford from the edge of the penalty box.

Didcot |Tn: Trott, Sampson, Jack, Heapy (Bridges 54), A Williams, Stanley (Brown 68), Hope, Mortimer-Jones, Bartley, Draycott, Dutton-Black (Harper 72).

Attendance: 226.