- Team form: Dulwich Hamlet have played with flair and energy, scoring plenty of goals and looking comfortable in Isthmian Premier football.
- League position: East Grinstead Town are 11th in the Southern Combination Premier table, with eight points from six, suggesting they are decent but not quite good enough.
- Head-to-head: The two clubs have no recent competitive head-to-head meetings in the FA Cup, so this will be a fresh scrap for both clubs.
Dulwich have the quality and depth
Mark Dacey has set Dulwich Hamlet up to play from the front and with the ball, which they are certainly doing right now. They play with a high-energy press, but are also technically good enough to build from the back, and their wings are a constant threat, with waves of players attacking and interchanging in the wide areas.
They should be winning this game comfortably, but there is still a place for a cup upset.
- Samir Carruthers has brought control and experience to the centre of the pitch, Danny Mills has been an outlet for the ball and a target man at his best, and Lonit Talla is a sharp edge with goals and a knack of getting into the right areas to make things happen.
- Dulwich have played five fixtures across pre-season and the start of the Isthmian Premier and their results are 5-1 (away), 2-1, 2-0, 2-2 and 3-2 (away) respectively.
Tight, tricky cup game on the cards
Style and scoring
East Grinstead Town are not quite as free-flowing as Dulwich but Grant Hearn and Andy Willis have certainly set them up to be dangerous in front of goal. Dan Perry is a main spearhead for the Wasps, and they have scored plenty of goals in the early stages of the Southern Combination Premier and FA Cup, but they're also a little loose at the back, as shown by their 4-4 draw with Hassocks.
Recent form and threats
The last five competitive fixtures for East Grinter have been 3-0 win at Bexhill, 0-1 loss at Crawley Down Gatwick, 3-1 win at Wick, 4-4 draw with Hassocks, and 3-1 win at Forest Row. They are a solid, direct team, not afraid to defend compact and not afraid of the fight that comes with cup football. Dominic Vose brings the X-factor here, he's a player who can create something out of nothing, and his pedigree suggests he is a big threat to Dulwich's stubborn defence.
East Grinstead will play their part
The odds tell you all you need to know about this game, with Dulwich 1.37, the draw 4.8 and East Grinterad 7.42, but we like the Wasps more than that suggests.
We can see Dulwich winning this fixture, but East Grinstead will make a game of it and both teams not to score looks a handy alternative, and makes a Dulwich win and both teams not to score a handy alternative, while 2-0 and 2-1 feel like the most likely scores to us.
