Chatham Town lost to Dartford on Monday after home success against Dulwich Hamlet – Kevin Hake’s men are away to Westfield in the FA Cup on Saturday

Chatham boss Kevin Hake bemoaned the missed chances at Dartford on Monday as his men saw their first-half lead slip away.

Chats started well enough and led 1-0 at the break through Jamie Yila but Darts got an early goal in the second half and finished strongly to win 3-1.

Report: Dartford 3 Chatham 1

“We started well but it’s how you finish, isn’t it?” said Hake.

“The third goal (a stoppage-time penalty), I will take that because we were chasing the game. I don’t think there was an awful lot in the game. They came out on top and that’s what you get in derbies. We didn’t take our chances and they did.

“We scored a good goal. I thought we had the first half and they had the second. They took their chances better than we took ours. You know you’re not going to get a flurry of chances and you have to take them. If you take them you win a game, if you don’t take them you don’t win.”

Yila slid home the opener on 33 minutes after Brad Sach played him in. Sam Sene-Richardson laid on another chance late in the half for the goalscorer but keeper Matt Kerbey saved. It was a golden chance missed.

Once Sam Odaudu fired home from outside the box for Dartford the hosts were back in it. Both teams had chances and Hake turned to his bench first, looking for different attacking options.

But it was Callum Jones who put Dartford ahead six minutes from time after Chatham failed to clear the danger and Eddie Dsane slotted in a penalty to seal the points.

Hake said: “Had we gone in 2-0 I don’t think anyone would be complaining there but that’s football. It’s always going to be tight margins in games like that.”

A crowd of 1,408 were there to watch the Bank Holiday match - the first league meeting between the two sides in 17 years,

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