Sutton United go into Saturday’s FA Cup showdown with AFC Wimbledon in high spirits having brushed Bromley aside 2-0 at Gander Green Lane on Sunday.

It was a great response by the U’s who suffered a knockout blow on Boxing Day in the reverse fixture, going down 1-0 to a Louis Dennis strike with seconds remaining.

On this occasion Sutton were much the better of the two sides and had to be patient before taking the lead in first-half injury time.

Roarie Deacon’s free-kick was headed into the net by Maxime Biamou just moments after U’s goalkeeper Ross Worner made a point-blank save at the other end to keep his side on level terms.

Worner had little to do in the second half as Sutton went close to extending their lead through Dan Fitchett and a stunning long-range effort from Craig Eastmond that hit the inside of the post.

Bradley Hudson-Odoi added a second goal midway through the second half, firing high into the net through a crowd of players to secure three welcome National League points for Sutton.

With 15 minutes to go Sutton introduced new signing Jeffrey Monakana who looked lively whenever he got the ball.

Sutton manager Paul Doswell was delighted to get back to winning ways.

He told SUFCtv: “Neil Smith [Bromley manager] said we thoroughly deserved to win and I’d agree with that assessment.

“I thought we were excellent. It was a great header from Max Biamou after another good Roarie Deacon delivery.

“It was important to keep up the momentum from the goal.

“I thought we deserved three or four today, we were that good.”

On Saturday’s cup game, Doswell feels his side have nothing to fear when they take on League 1 AFC Wimbledon.

He said: “We feel we’ve got a good chance. It’s on our pitch. Not many teams like to play on our pitch.

“If the team plays to that level they did today and Wimbledon have a bit of an off day then we’ve got a chance.

“They would beat us nine times out of 10 but it’s the one out of 10 that the FA Cup magic is all about.

“We’ve got that chance and we’re going into it expecting to do something.”