The Millers have had to wait five years for a victory in The Emirates FA Cup after defeats to Hornchurch, AFC Sudbury, Potters Bar Town and Barking but after seeing off Harpenden Town yesterday 3-0 away from home the wait is over.

On Saturday The Millers travelled to take on Harpenden Town and with a professional performance from the team, we got the job done. The goals come from George Sykes and Bradley Sach in the first half and George Allen completed the scoring with a goal in the second half.

We started the game off well with four corners in the first 5 minutes with the Harpenden Town defence clearing their lines well. Seven minutes into the game and our early pressure told, a ball to Bradley Sach and he managed to find a brilliant finish into the bottom right-hand corner. Harpenden Town 0-1 Aveley.

It was a game with few chances, but around 20 minutes into it and we almost doubled our lead. Harry Gibbs got on the end of a Mitchell Gilbey corner, Gibbo found Bradley Sach who had his effort blocked, the ball then came back to Bradley Sach in the middle of the box, but again his goalbound effort was blocked and saved by the Harpenden keeper.

George Sykes was next to try his luck but like Bradley Sach's efforts a few minutes earlier, they were blocked well as the hosts managed to keep us out. But George Sykes wasn't to be denied for long, the ball came to him on the edge of the area, he chested it down and volleyed it into the bottom right-hand corner, a great strike. Harpenden Town 0-2 Aveley.

The hosts rarely threatened the Aveley goal, and a free-kick on the left-hand side of the pitch was as close as the hosts came to scoring. The free-kick was overhit but superbly tipped onto the bar by David Hughes, with the following corner not coming to anything.

We went close again at the end of the first half as George Sykes collected the ball on the right-hand side of the pitch, cut inside but fired his effort over the crossbar from 20 yards out.

Half Time | Harpenden Town 0-2 Aveley.

The Millers controlled performance continued into the second half and two diving saves from the Harpenden keeper kept it at 2-0, first he denied Bradley Sach and then Mitchell Gilbey.

Ten minutes into the second half and it looked like we scored a third - Bradley Sach tapped in after a great cross from Jason Ring, but Bradley Sach was adjudged to be offside.

We only had to wait for three minutes after Sach's second was ruled out for offside to get our third goal, a corner came into the box, after a couple of half-chances the ball landed to George Allen who poked the ball over the line to send The Millers through into the next round of The Emirates FA Cup. Harpenden Town 0-3 Aveley.

The last twenty minutes of the game saw us take the foot off the gas to see out the game, David Hughes had to come and collect a couple of crosses into the box but did so well to keep a clean sheet.

With five minutes to go we did find the back of the net again but this time Manny Ogunrinde was adjudged to have fouled the defender who he dribbled past and subsequently slotted into the goal. Unfortunately for Manny, it was disallowed this time.

Full Time | Harpenden Town 0-3 Aveley.

Attendance | 300.

Millers XI | David Hughes, Jason Ring, Steve Sheehan, Harry Gibbs (Wyan Reid 71), George Allen, George Winn, James Goode, Connor Witherspoon, Mitchell Gilbey, Bradley Sach (Manny Ogunrinde 65), George Sykes.

Unused Subs | Harry Donovan, Jack Mochalski, Alex Clark.

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