Miles Rutherford, Dabba, Danny Potter & Co made three changes to the side that drew 0-0 with Cray Wanderers on Saturday. Dunn lined up as right back with skipper Rob Hutchings on the other side. Jamie Horncastle, Lloyd Rowlatt and Olly Munt all dropped to the bench and were replaced by Curtis Da Costa in the heart of the defence with Ben Pashley, Mo Jammeh and Misha Djemaili. Joe Moore, Joe Clarke and Isaac Bello started with Prichard up top. Theo Bennetts and Lewis Rustell joined the other three Chi players in the dugout.
It was goalless at the Enclosed Ground in Brighton when the teams met back in August, and here Bello signalled the home team’s intent with a shot in the opening minute before the visitors won a throw.
Next, Pashley got fouled as tall Hawks striker Harry Lodovica left a foot up and then Dunn lost control of Da Costa’s forward pass.
Either Lodovica or Harry Bridle got flagged offside moments later, as was Prichard at the Archery End.
A wonderful cross by Dunn was missed by Prichard when the hosts pressed again, and on nine minutes the Lillywhites earned a first corner of the evening which Hutchings delivered.
The visitors threatened through Charlie Lambert after an under-hit Dunn back-pass but the ball rolled out for a Chichester goal kick.
Then Lodovica impaired Da Costa and Hutchings struck a pass too long in the following Chi attack.
Pashley hit a long-ranger 15 minutes in which fizzed narrowly wide of the left-hand post before a dangerous cross from the Chichester captain resulted in no end product.
Prichard fired one off target 60 seconds later and found Bello whose nice turn might have led to a penalty on another night.
Dunn intercepted as Lambert pressed once more and neat stuff from Djemaili led to the home side overplaying however.
Jammeh got fouled by Hawks skipper Andy Briggs at the mid-point of the half and Hutchings hit a second corner too deep this time.
First Dunn had a shot parried by Francis Hurl and then Djemaili could have broken the deadlock from the edge of the area but his shot went just wide.
Prichard had the ball in the back of the net in this impressive period but referee Jacob Wright chalked it off for a foul on Hurl.
Djemaili, on fire all night, twisted this way and that just after the half hour mark and won Chichester a throw before Hutchings’ cracker was somehow saved by Hurl for a corner that the No3 took and Whitehawk headed away.
Both teams exchanged goal kicks and with eight minutes to go to the interval a promising Chi move broke down.
Next, Da Costa’s ball towards Dunn drifted out for a Hawks throw and the Chichester centre back then got dispossessed by Lodovica and only a timely intervention by Dunn denied him.
Briggs delivered the subsequent corner and Da Costa turned it out for another on the College Lane side.
Pashley and Lodovica clashed and both went down for some physio treatment.
And then completely against the run of play Lambert smashed in the opener on the stroke of half time.
Neither side made any changes at the interval but Lambert became the first of five players to be yellow-carded by Mr Wright, for kicking the ball needlessly away in this instance.
Lodovica then flashed one just wide after a quick break before going down for three minutes to receive some on-field physio.
And when we resumed play Pashley picked Dunn whose super effort was palmed away by Hurl.
Destiny Ojo replaced goal-scorer Lambert 10 minutes in and Rustell came on for Da Costa as well as Chi rejigged with three at the back.
Pashley snuffed out the danger posed by the following Hawks attack and Clarke was similarly well in.
Left back Hugo Odogwu-Atkinson was booked for time-wasting on the hour and Clarke went close with a shot from some distance.
Bello then scooped one after good work by Djemaili and the Hawks sub’s cross was ballooned out for a corner off a City defender by Charlie Harris.
Rustell then might have rolled his marker; Jammeh was exchanged for Rowlatt; Hutchings pulled an attempt well-wide; and Prichard’s effort was turned round for a corner by Hurl.
The equaliser came from this as Dunn thumped the ball home convincingly to make it 1-1.
And then in the 74th minute Nathan Cooper was shown a straight red for a professional foul on Prichard.
The No11 took the set-piece himself and beat Hurl all ends up with a brilliantly placed dead-ball.
Rowlatt might have made it 3-1 moments later but his shot was saved before a well-timed tackle from Bello ended a rare Hawks raid.
Djemaili got hacked down on 78, and the Hawks substitute was cautioned for a foul on Moore.
Next, Lodovica’s cross was cleared before Munt came on for the hard-working Djemaili.
A foul by Clarke resulted in a booking and a Hawks free-kick which Harris struck well off-target.
A poor pass then went out for a Chichester goal kick and in time added on Magee claimed a low cross from the right.
Clarke was exchanged for Bennetts before Prichard was brought down – no foul apparently according to the ref.
And the final whistle went as Chi recorded only their second win at Oaklands in all competitions this season.
Rutherford’s men travel to Dartford next in the league on Saturday 15th November (Kick Off 3pm).
Chichester – Magee, Dunn, Hutchings, Moore, Da Costa, Pashley, Bello, Clarke, Jammeh, Prichard, Djemaili (Bennetts, Horncastle, Rustell, Munt, Rowlatt).
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