Ebbsfleet United 2 Farnborough 2 match report: Kwesi Appiah and Charlie Seaman score in National League South draw as Rakish Bingham scores twice against his former club

Ebbsfleet were held to their sixth draw in eight games in National League South on Saturday.

The Fleet made a quickfire start but needed a deflected Charlie Seaman free-kick to rescue a point after Rakish Bingham scored twice against his former club,

Ebbsfleet were without leading scorer Dominic Samuel due to illness but they didn’t waste time on finding the breakthrough without him.

It took the Fleet just 33 seconds to nudge ahead as Ben Chapman’s cross from the left was headed in by Kwesi Appiah from close range for his fifth league goal of the season.

Appiah went close again on four minutes but fired over and he should have scored again on 12 minutes when Farnborough’s defence let him through but the striker was denied by keeper Tommy Reid.

Farnborough had already gone close when Fleet keeper Matt Hall had to save well at the feet of Bingham.

But the former Fleet favourite was to make a goalscoring return to Stonebridge Road on his first outing since leaving last summer, heading in an Ollie Robinson cross on 26 minutes to give the visitors a scarcely deserved equaliser.

The goal took the atmosphere out of the home crowd although the visitors were fortunate to end the half with their full quota of players.

Remmy Smith was booked on 36 minutes for a crude challenge on Finlay Barnes. He then left his foot in on Gene Kennedy and was a lucky man to escape further punishment four minutes later.

Smith was, not surprisingly, removed at the break with former Ebbsfleet midfielder Billy Clifford introduced while Fleet boss Josh Wright replaced Barnes with on-loan Gills forward Marcus Wyllie.

Clifford saw his 20-yard shot beaten away by keeper Hall before Farnborough went ahead on 57 minutes. Hakeem Sandah was allowed to run at