Having won their previous three league games, Leverstock Green should have gone into Tuesday night's Herts Senior Cup quarter-final against Berkhamsted with confidence, but for the third time this season they ended up getting well beaten by their neighbours.

Six changes were made from Saturday's win at Wembley as the management team sought to rotate their squad, and it showed as the performance was somewhat disjointed and lacked the energy and intensity from the previous games. It didn't help that Leverstock lost the livewire Billy Smith to injury inside the opening ten minutes.

Leverstock competed early on, and might have taken the lead in the 20th minute when Callum Wright chipped the ball through to Louis Bircham, but his effort was deflected wide. Berko had also missed some good chances before they opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Adiel Mannion got to the bye-line and pulled the ball back for Ashley Morrissey to score from close range.

A second Berko goal in the 40th minute made it an uphill struggle for the Leverstock side, as Mannion disposessed Alex Nolan on the edge of the box before shooting home from an angle. There was further injury woe for Leverstock as Nathan Jellow hobbled off in the closing minute of the half and was replaced at half time.

Berko added a third in the 57th minute when Jordan Frederick was put through. Kieran Jimmy saved his first shot, but Frederick netted from the rebound. The rest of the match was something of a damp squib after that. Leverstock were denied even a consolation goal when a shot from Wright was cleared off the line, and Ryan Laville added the fourth goal from a somewhat harsh penalty in the 83rd minute.