Sol Bloomer and Hamza Alaeddine were both on the scoresheet as Kenilworth Wardens made it back to back wins with a 2-0 victory over Polesworth NW in the first round of the Nursing Charity Cup. 

With injury, illness and unavailability hampering the host's preparations they were left with only 12 men to face a Polesworth side flying high in the Birmingham Premier alliance.

Following an even start to the game Wardens carved out the first clear opening with Adam Hnat firing agonisingly wide at the back post from captain James Butler's cross.

Bloomer also came close from an effort from 20 yards and Butler missed the target from the middle of the box when arriving late onto a cross. 

Chances turned into dominating possession and on 30 minutes Wardens got their reward.

A good move forward saw Alex Waters cut the ball back for Eamonn Richards who crossed to Bloomer on the left hand side of the box to sweep the ball home into the bottom corner for a well deserved first goal for the club. 

With several tactical changes at half time Polesworth came with renewed energy and put Wardens under pressure, but the exceptional Alex Bradley and Alex Cockburn at centre half dominated, clearing every cross and chance.

On 60 minutes Kenilworth should have made it two from the spot.

A defence cutting pass from Richards found Bloomer on the left hand side. Bloomer cut into the box before laying to Alaeddine who beat his first man before being fouled by the second for a clear cut penalty.

In the absence of in-form Dan Twigger, Bloomer stepped up to take, but his penalty was well saved by the Polesworth keeper and James Clay could only turn the rebound into the side netting from a tight angle. 

As Wardens searched for a second, they limited Polesworth to few opportunities with the visitor's best chance coming from a long distance shot which was comfortably saved by Tom Day. 

In the 90th minute, Clay headed the ball clear from a Polesworth free kick. Waters picked up the second ball and passed too Alaeddine, he played to Bloomer on the half way line on the left. Bloomer played an excellent cross field ball to substitute George Ferridge on the right, who crossed first time to Alaeddine to stroke in from 10 yards out for his first of the year and to wrap up the result.

"Some games are easy to organize, this was not one of them, everything which could have gone wrong went wrong," Richards said after the game.

"But all worth it when you have performances like that, everyone was an 8/10 today, two centre backs were perfect too. 

"Last week we kept a clean sheet but were defensively sloppy, today we gave zero chances for 90 minutes. Which was great. 

"I'd love to take credit for todays win but this win goes fully to assistant manager George Ferridge, he's been working on this tactics for weeks for situations where we don't have Twigger, and it worked perfectly, obviously helped Hamza was excellent throughout. Also George got another assist from the bench."

Wardens Reserves lost 4-2 to league above Triumph Athletic. Goals from James Wilding and Harry Belcher. Assist from Belcher.