TRURO City boss John Askey felt his side ‘got what we deserved’ as the Tinners kept up their unbeaten start to the National League South campaign on Saturday with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Dagenham and Redbridge.

The Daggers – a former EFL side – who have former England international striker Andy Carroll amongst their ranks, although he was suspended – are a side, like the Cornishmen, tipped for promotion, but were well beaten in front of a healthy crowd of 2,146.

Askey named an unchanged side for the fourth straight match having picked up seven points from a possible nine, the only alteration on the bench being former Cardiff City and Wigan Athletic frontman Omar Bogle, who joined the club in midweek, coming in for Dom Johnson-Fisher.

Dagenham arrived with four wins from four, but despite having a swirling wind in their favour, struggled to exert themselves after an encouraging opening.

Truro took the lead 26 minutes in as skipper Connor Riley-Lowe, who ended up with two goals and an assist, sent in a cross from the left that midfielder Yassine En-Neyah diverted past Nathan Ashmore.

En-Neyah saw an effort blocked at the start of the second stanza, however they were soon 2-0 up as on 50 minutes Luke Jephcott laid a free-kick off to Riley-Lowe who found the top corner from 20 yards.

Dagenham were reduced to 10 men when Henry Hawkins was shown a second yellow for hauling down striker Jack Stretton, before efforts from Jephcott and Stretton went narrowly wide.

But with five minutes of normal time remaining, Truro wrapped up a third win of the season as Riley-Lowe’s inswinging free-kick from the right was flicked in by Bogle with his first competitive touch in a Tinners shirt.

Truro saw out the rest of the contest with few alarms ahead of tomorrow’s Bank Holiday Monday trip to Dorking Wanderers (3pm).

Askey admitted he couldn’t have asked for much more.

He said: “I felt from the first whistle that we looked stronger, fitter and the better team throughout the game. We got what we deserved I felt.

“It is an advantage playing here when the conditions are like that as we’re used to it, and the first goal we scored I thought was really good football. It was nice to see Yas for all of his hard work get on the end of a cross from Connor and that just set us up nicely going 1-0 up.”

Truro piled on the pressure after the break, something Askey felt was important.

He said: “I can’t really remember them creating anything, with the wind being so strong and going in to half-time 1-0 you’re quietly confident, but you never know. Things can change, but I felt we controlled the second half from start to finish.

“When you’re one-up you can’t sit back. If you want to achieve something you’ve got to be brave. I felt we approached the second half as we did the first half and we came away with the two extra goals and I thought it was thoroughly deserved.”

The Tinners added to his attacking firepower by drafting in Bogle, and the boss feels they are in a good space.

“It’s great when you bring somebody in, especially a forward, and he scores with his first touch,” he continued.

“It can only give Omar confidence. Doesn’t matter where he’s played or what he’s done, when you come into a football club you want to start on the right foot and he’s done that. It’s nice when you’ve got the likes of Omar, Harvey Greenslade and Dom (Johnson-Fisher) who’s not featured today, it shows that we’re probably stronger than we have been since I’ve been at the football club.”

Old rivals Dorking Wanderers provide the opposition in Kent tomorrow afternoon (3pm).

Askey continued: “We go into the game confident, although it’s very early days. Dorking is always a tough place to go, playing on the 3G. They’ve had a good win today, they’ve got good players and I’m sure will be up there come the end of the season, but we’ll go up there with confidence.”

Truro were backed by a noisy home support, a fact not lost on the former Macclesfield and York City boss, who concluded: “That’s what we want, when clubs come here our fans to be intimidating. When they come to Cornwall – and it starts with the players – show that we mean business when we play. If the crowd can generate that sort of atmosphere, it becomes a place where people don’t want to come.”