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Ebbsfleet United boss Daryl McMahon admits his team lacked fluency in their 1-1 draw with local rivals Dartford

Daryl McMahon admitted Ebbsfleet didn't deserve to beat Dartford on Easter Monday.

Matt Godden's 37th-minute opening goal was the highlight of a poor first half and the Fleet only led for 10 minutes, with Ryan Hayes equalising soon after half-time.

In front of Ebbsfleet's biggest home crowd of the season - 2,435 - a 1-1 draw was the right result at the end of a poor game played in occasionally difficult weather conditions.

Ebbsfleet manager Daryl McMahon can't hide his frustration on the touchline Picture: John Westhrop
Ebbsfleet manager Daryl McMahon can't hide his frustration on the touchline Picture: John Westhrop

McMahon said: "We were patchy. I don’t think we were very fluent and we looked a little bit jittery at times as well.

"We still created a number of chances, especially late on, Matty Godden had a couple in the second half and Keds hit the post. It probably was a penalty, he’s been dragged down to the floor but it wasn’t fluent enough from us.

"It was one of those games, windy, horrible, a local derby. They’re normally settled by a mistake or a scramble or a penalty.

"I thought we were the team looking to do that but it just didn’t fall for us.

"We probably didn’t get the ball down and move it as quickly as we can.

"We’ve got an opposition trying to stop us doing that, the weather conditions are not helping you move the ball that quickly and that was it.

"We can’t sit there complaining, saying we 1000% deserved three points because we didn’t. We probably had enough chances to win it but we didn’t deserve to, really, with the performance we gave."

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