George Porter opened the scoring against his old club as Maidstone lost 2-0 to Bromley in the National League on Tuesday night.

Porter, released during Stones’ Ryman League title season, gave the visitors a deserved lead midway through the first half, with Oluwatobi Sho-Silva adding the second.

Liam Enver-Marum missed a penalty to cap a frustrating night for Maidstone, while Porter was stretchered off in the last 10 minutes.

United barely got out of their own half in a first half dominated by Bromley.

The Lillywhites looked confident and assured as they dominated possession but, with something of a shoot-on-sight policy, they generally lacked composure in the final third.

There was no need to be so rash, though, because they looked dangerous whenever they did find a way past the home defence.

Lee Worgan stuck out a leg to deny Porter in the opening minutes and was sharply off his line to stop the same man around the 20-minute mark.

Bromley's Dave Martin was getting so much space wide left and eventually made Maidstone pay as the visitors went in front on 25 minutes.

He was picked out once again and after Worgan parried his effort, Porter was there to stab home the loose ball.

Joe Howe threatened with a deflected strike soon after then Bromley missed a glorious chance to double their lead, Sho-Silva simply not anticipating Porter’s header back across goal when unmarked a few yards out.

Maidstone carved out their only chance of the half two minutes before the break.

There was a hint of handball as Enver-Marum broke into the box from Tom Murphy’s pass before firing wide of the far post.

Maidstone, with only four substitutes to pick from, replaced Bobby-Joe Taylor with Ben Greenhalgh at the break, and within five minutes had to make another change as Anthony Acheampong, himself nursing a hamstring problem, came on for the injured Kevin Lokko.

Worgan was down sharply to get a hand to Porter’s 25-yard drive as Bromley made a bright start to the second half, while the tricky Blair Turgott grew in influence.

Acheampong was expected to be out until the weekend at least and on 56 minutes gifted the ball to Sho-Silva who went through and hammered the ball into the top corner for Bromley’s second goal.

It should have been game over midway through the half when Dan Sweeney presented the ball to Sho-Silva, Porter taking the pass but blazing over with only Worgan to beat.

Stones were handed a lifeline with 15 minutes left when Flisher went down under challenge from Howe but Enver-Marum’s penalty was saved by Alan Julian.

Maidstone: Worgan, Hall-Johnson, Mavila, Coyle, Lokko (Acheampong 50mins), Sweeney, Murphy (May 58mins), Paxman, Flisher, Enver-Marum, Taylor (Greenhalgh 46mins). Subs not used: Rogers.

Bromley: Julian, Howe, Chorley, Holland, Martin, G Porter (Goldberg 82mins), Anderson, Prestedge, Turgott, M Porter, Sho-Silva. Subs not used: Johnson, Swaine, Cunnington, Pavey.

Attendance: 2,358.