Dartford manager Alan Dowson admitted his team needed to be more clinical after suffering their first defeat of the season. Dowson felt the Darts were the better team against Havant on Tuesday night but lost the game in both boxes. “I thought we played well,” said Dowson. “We’ve got to be more clinical and do better in both boxes. “We lost Jason Prior on the first goal, we talked about him before kick-off and I said keep him outside the six-yard box but he scored from the six-yard box. “Defensively in those areas we weren’t great.
I’m disappointed with the goals we conceded, everything else was fine. The second goal we didn’t win the first or the second header and that cannot happen. “It doesn’t matter who we play, if they’re top of the league or bottom of the league, if we concede goals like that then we’re in trouble.
The first and second contacts we’ve got to do better. “Defensively we’d been good up until now. It’s just the two boxes - be clinical in one where you’ve got to score and the other where you have to defend for your life.
We didn’t do that very well but apart from that our play was actually very good.” Neither team were impressed by referee Kirsty Dowle and her assistants.