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Bedford move into fourth after destroying Dunstable

Bedford Town having last weekend climbed to fifth in the table – the final play off position, were keen to consolidate with a win at Dunstable Town’s Creasey Park Saturday.

Bedford, playing in their grey away strip took control of the game from the off.

Ben Ford was the first with a shot from 20 yards out, but Connor Coulson the Dunstable keeper kept it out, and the resulting corner came to nothing.

The breakthrough came in the 12th minute when Ebby Nelson-Addy got a great ball to Bedford’s leading scorer Dan Walker who ran onto it, outpacing the Dunstable defence.

He rounded Coulson, who had come out of his area, and calmly slotted it in the net past him.

A pinpoint pass from Dan Olaniran found Leon Lobjoit, who took the ball into the area and from an angle on the left forced a save from Coulson, no Bedford player was there for the follow up and it went out for a corner which comes to nothing.

From the left James Hall played the ball onto Walker, who got his brace by putting the ball into the corner of the net, giving the keeper very little chance.

Dunstable had their first shot of the game two minutes later as Hassan Sheikh fired over from long range. Bedford continued to pile the pressure on the home side, Hall in particular created havoc on the left, causing the defence problems.

Sheikh, who had Dunstable’s best chance a few minutes earlier, was shown a straight red after Bedford’s captain Callum Donnelly was fouled in the centre circle, and when, after the resultant melee Lucas Kirkpatrick went down with what appeared to be a headbutt.

Ten men Dunstable next succumbed to pressure from Nelson-Addy and Ford who combined, for Ford to score and Nelson-Addy, to get his second assist of the day, with the shot going in low past Coulson for Bedford’s third.

Bedford were not finished though and were looking increasingly goal hungry.

Walker continued to be dangerous and got his first hattrick playing for The Eagles after Hall provided a cross that went to Lobjoit and was cleared by a defender, only for it to roll to the Bedford hotshots feet.

He made no mistake with his blast from five yards out.

Half time came with Bedford controlling the game and leading by the four goal cushion. The second half continued to produce chances for the away side, with Lobjoit and Kirkpatrick going close.

Hall also continued to cause the home side problems. He managed to evade two defenders from the right corner of the area, before taking the ball inside and then skying the resultant shot over the bar.

Three minutes later he was to get his reward when he got the ball in the area, evaded a defender and toe poked the ball past the young keeper.

Dunstable had no answer to the increasingly confident and positive Bedford play, deep into stoppage time substitute Joe Evans was pulled back by his shirt in the penalty box, but much to the travelling fans annoyance the referee, waved play on.

With a convincing win The Eagles had kept, and consolidated their place in the playoffs, especially with rivals for the position, Berkhampstead, Sutton Coldfield and Coleshill all dropping valuable points.

But the news was to be even better. Our local rivals Kempston Town did us a massive favour, drawing with Didcot by scoring an equaliser in injury time.

This meant that with just four matches to go, Bedford sit at fourth in the table.

Next Saturday will be a test for The Eagles as they face playoff hunting Sutton Coldfield at The Eyrie, K.O is at 3pm.

Dunstable Town FC 0 – Bedford Town FC 5