Andy Hessenthaler’s squad continued their pre-season campaign with a second successive win after coming from behind to win at Margate.

The manager made a number of changes from Whites’ win at Hythe Town on Tuesday night, with Josh Passley, Will De Havilland, Joe Bedford, Steven Rigg and Jack Munns all coming in.

New signings, goalkeeper Josh Bexon, TJ Bramble and Sam Wood also started.

Both teams kept the ball well early on, with the first chance of the game not coming until the 15^th minute through Margate’s Jack Richards, who curled the ball just over the bar from about 20 yards out.

Home goalkeeper Bailey Vose came to the rescue to keep the score goalless after  Munns’ brilliant strike from outside the box was palmed away for a corner.

From the resulting corner, Dover took the lead when the ball eventually found its way through to Rigg who hammered the ball into the top of the net.

Margate leveled immediately through Conor Evans, who took his chance well, curling home from 20 yards out.

The home side almost went ahead through Lewis Carey shortly after their equaliser, but his shot was well saved by Bexon.

Dover made a number of changes at half-time, one saw Yusuf Mersin replacing Paxon and the big stopper was in the action immediately, clawing away a deflected free kick which looked destined to be a goal.

With 15 minutes to go, Margate took the lead through a brilliant strike from John Ufuah, who picked up the ball and curled it over Mersin.

Ufuah almost got his second shortly after, finding space and smashing the ball against the bar.

A trialist got Dover back on level terms with five minutes to go after the ball got slipped through to him and he was able to slot home from inside the box.

A couple of minutes later, the same trialist doubled his tally to put Dover ahead for the second time in the game after the Margate goalkeeper smashed the ball against the head of the defender, with the ball ricocheting to the trialist who was able to walk it into the empty net.

One goal was enough for Whites as they started pre-season with a win at Hythe Town.

Manager Andy Hessenthaler used this game to find out more about trialists, with nine starting the game and more coming on in the second half.

Dover had most of the early attacks and could’ve been 1-0 up inside the first 10 minutes after good link up play between two trialists allowed one of them to get around the keeper.

However, he ran out of room in the box and although he was able to get the ball into the danger area, it was easily cleared away by the Hythe defence.

Whites were almost made to pay for a defensive calamity shortly after when a defensive trialist only found the Hythe attacker with a misplaced pass before captain Yusuf Mersin made the save.

Dover took the lead on the half hour mark through one of the trialists after he ran through on goal and kept his composure to slot home.

Dover went in search of a second and had a chance five minutes later after Mersin’s long ball found the furthest forward trialist, but he was taken down as he ran through on goal with the resulting free-kick going well over the bar.

Hythe almost levelled before half time but Mersin did well to stay alert as a corner was headed straight at him.

The second half started slowly, with the first clear cut chance not coming until close to the hour mark as Hythe almost levelled once again.

After some smart play between the Hythe forward put his effort into the side netting.

Dover had a shot  well saved by the Hythe goalkeeper, before new Dover signing Louis Collins turned well and shot just over the bar.

Another new arrival, TJ Bramble came on for his debut late in the game, playing a right-back.

Dover Athletic is delighted to announce the signing of Sam Wood.

The 34-year-old left-back made 36 appearances in all competitions for Bromley last season, including both National League games against us, before his release this summer.

Wood started his career with Cray Wanderers before joining Bromley for the first time, making over 150 appearances in three years with the Ravens.

He then joined then League Two side Brentford, and went on to win the promotion with the Bees in his first season with them – he was also named Supporters’ Player of the Year.

Wood made more than 100 appearances in three years with Brentford and also spent time on loan with League Two Rotherham United, making 27 appearances.

After that loan spell, Wood joined Wycombe Wanderers in July 2012 and spent five seasons with the Chairboys, making 213 appearances and scoring 16 goals.

At the end of the 2016-17 season, Wood left Wycombe and signed for Eastleigh.

He spent a season with the Spitfires, where he played under now Dover manager Andy Hessenthaler, before returning to Bromley ahead of the 2018/19 season.

During his career, Wood has also done some body doubling for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in adverts.

Welcome to Crabble, Sam !

Dover Athletic are delighted to announce the signing of young striker Louis Collins.

The 19-year-old spent last season playing for Sevenoaks Town in the Isthmian League South East Division, a club managed by his father Micky.

The two-time Kent Youth League Golden Boot winner joined The Oaks following his release from Scunthorpe United after they were relegated to Sky Bet League Two.

Welcome to Crabble, Louis!

Academy graduate Marshall Wratten has committed his future to the club by extending his contract until the end of the 2021 season.

The 20-year-old left-winger, who can also play at left-back, signed an initial one-year deal ahead of the 2019/20 season after impressing for Dover’s Academy side.

He made his senior debut as a second half substitute in our Emirates FA Cup first round defeat at Bury in November 2018.

Marshall spent most of last season on loan at Isthmian South East club Whitstable Town.