Ebbsfleet United 0 Hartlepool United 1 match report: Fleet remain in National League relegation zone
Shotshy Ebbsfleet remain in the National League relegation zone after losing to Hartlepool on Saturday. With many of the teams around them not in action due to the cold weather, the Fleet failed to take advantage with a lacklustre display against a Hartlepool team who had not kept a clean sheet in their previous 17 league games.
The visitors were keen to impress new head coach Kevin Phillips, the former Sunderland striker watched the game from the stands and was bizarrely announced in his position during the first half of the game.
Ebbsfleet made three changes from the side that beat Wealdstone a fortnight ago with a debut for Declan Skura while Luke O’Neill and Billy Clifford also started.
Hartlepool fielded an unchanged starting XI from the one that was knocked out by Hampton on penalties in the FA Trophy last weekend.