EASTLEIGH summoned up a performance at Bromley laced with quality and sheer grit to book a place in Monday’s FA Cup first round draw.

Yemi Odubade nodded the Spitfires in front three minutes in, with Chris Todd’s team rampant in the early stages.

Louis Dennis drew the hosts level on 63 minutes, from where they looked favourites to go on and secure victory.

That was without reckoning for Jai Reason (pictured), however, whose slightly fortuitous 78th minute goal won it for the away side, writes Paul McNamara.

Eastleigh’s lightning start was rewarded when Reason took up possession on the left. The attacker clipped a terrific ball to the far post, from where Joe Partington headed across goal for Odubade to nod home from close range.

Shortly after his side’s breakthrough Reason was denied by Chris Kettings, the home stopper smothering at visiting player’s feet yards from goal.

Bromley’s first moment of promise was provided by winger Anthony Cook, driving a long range strike high of the target.

Jamie Turley was then in action, when Cook pounced, amid a melee in the Spitfires’ box. The winger drove at goal, but Turley flung himself in the path of the ball to preserve his team’s lead.

Bromley’s growing confidence was then epitomised by centre-half Ben Chorley slaloming his way forward into the Spitfires’ area.

Chorley traded passes with Moses Emmanuel to find himself in on goal, with a combination of Turley and visiting number 1 Ross Flitney finally quashing the defender’s adventurous raid.

Reason twice came close to extending Eastleigh’s lead prior to the break, hitting wide from distance, before being repelled by Kettings’ sharp stop.

In between those near misses Reason was embroiled in a contentious moment, when Cook went down in the area under the attacker’s challenge. Much to Cook’s ire, however, referee Nigel Lugg ignored the Ravens’ furious penalty appeals..

Dennis came close to levelling soon after the restart, the winger hammering an 18-yard effort an inch past the left upright.

As the Ravens’ ramped up the pressure Emmanuel rifled into the side-netting from an acute angle on the right.

The hosts’ equaliser duly arrived on 63 minutes, however.

Dennis launched the move, drifting across-field, to feed Cook on the right. Galloping onto the return pass, Dennis dipped back inside and crashed the ball emphatically into the roof of the net.

Emmanuel came close to turning the tables entirely, when he recovered from Turley’s initial tackle to prod a foot wide.

With Bromley in the ascendancy, Eastleigh’s winner came as a bolt from the blue. Reason swung an innocuous looking delivery in from the left that should have posed no threat to the home defence. Nevertheless, with his defenders watching on, Kettings remained rooted to his spot and allowed the ball to limp past him and into his net.

Emmaunel was wide with a thumping half-volley shortly after Reason’s goal, but that was the closest the home side would come to forcing a replay.