FA Cup

Ciardini sparks a second-half rout

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 September 2021

By Dom Lloyd

FARNBOROUGH 4
PEACEHAVEN & TELS 0
A FIRST meeting between Farnborough and Peacehaven & Telscombe of the Southern Combination Premier Division shaped up this first-round qualifying tie.
A quarter of an hour in, Nic Ciardini tested goalkeeper Lawrence Sanded with a left-footed strike that the visiting shot-stopper fumbled, but managed to keep out.
Five minutes later, Farnborough’s Michael Fernandes curled a leftfooted effort onto a post.
A minute before half-time, the visiting Jack Webber forced Farnborough’s debuting keeper Tarek Najia into a save afte...

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