Leverstock Green made their second trip to Creasey Park inside four days, and suffered a heavy defeat that would scarcely have seemed conceivable during a first half in which they dominated the game. The final scoreline was extremely flattering for AFC Dunstable, but the bottom line is that Leverstock crashed out of the FA Vase at the first hurdle for the fourth year in a row.

The two sides each showed three changes to the starting line-ups from Wednesday night's 2-2 draw in the league, and Leverstock picked up from where they had left off in the second half of that game as they took the game by the scruff of the neck from the start. In the 4th minute the home side gave the ball away from their own free kick straight to David Sobers, who put Billy Smith clean through, but keeper Louis Porcelli came off his line to save, and Smith's cross from the rebound was cleared.

In the 8th minute Porcelli dawdled on the edge of his area while receiving a back pass, allowing Louis Bircham to come in and take the ball away from him, however, when Bircham put the ball across the face of goal there was nobody there to finish off. A key moment came in the 19th minute when Callum Wright went on a solo run through the AFC defence and went down just inside the box. The referee's decision was to book Wright for diving although the view of supporters behind the goal was that there was definite contact.

Leverstock continued to impress with their one-touch build-up play against a side that looked uncharacteristically sloppy and sluggish, but their reluctance to pull the trigger and shoot when the opportunities arose, plus their ineffective use of set pieces meant that they didn't create enough chances and had nothing to show for their efforts as the end of the half approached. This proved costly as the home side struck a minute before the break. A cross from the left bounced around several players in the penalty area before James Bishop took the chance to fire the ball home from six yards.

Worse was to follow in first half stoppage time. Newman Carney delivered a free kick from near the halfway line straight into the danger area - something Leverstock had failed to do all game - and it fell for Fabio Bufano to shoot low into the bottom corner to send his side into a break with a 2-0 lead that didn't reflect the game at all.

Leverstock continued to push forward early in the second half. A long-range effort from Liam Hind on 49 minutes wasn't far over, and Hind hit a free kick from just outside the box into the wall on 56 minutes. As the half worse on, though, the Green side were visibly tiring after their first half efforts. Three substitutions failed to turn the tide, and when AFC broke from a quickly-taken free kick and Marcus Campbell shot home a third goal on 81 minutes, the game was over as a contest.

Carney added a fourth from the penalty spot on 85 minutes, after which there was a mass brawl in the centre circle, but all that came out of it were two yellow cards, one for each side. Lorenzo Silvestri piled further misery on the Green side with a fifth goal in stoppage time that left their supporters in a state of disbelief at what had transpired over the last hour.

Leverstock are back in action on Tuesday night when they are at home to Hillingdon Borough in a league game.