Ebbsfleet United boss Dennis Kutrieb says side will get their rewards if they keep focus when struggling to break teams down

Ebbsfleet manager Dennis Kutrieb has reminded his players to play with patience.

The Fleet have enjoyed a dream start to their National League South season and beat Sevenoaks 2-0 on Saturday to advance to the FA Cup First Round where they will host FC Halifax next month.

But Kutrieb is conscious there are plenty of challenges ahead and knows the Fleet won’t always have it their own way.

“There are games where you have to patient, and it’s not possible to get frustrated or distracted,” stressed the Fleet boss.

“We need to make sure we deliver the right things and the goals are the rewards we get for it.

“If the keeper makes some good saves in the first half then we won’t be ahead but we can’t always be one or two-up by half-time, there will be games where it’s 0-0 after 80 minutes and then you need to think that if you have another chance you put it in the goal to win the game.

“Opponents will always start to get fatigue and be tired, that’s normal in football, so you have to be there to score, like we did the second goal against Sevenoaks last weekend.

"I like it if we score an early goal but that can’t always be the case.”

Ebbsfleet host Welling on Saturday and then entertain St Albans on Tuesday night, the start of a run of fixtures that will see them play twice a week for at least the next month.

It doesn’t pose a problem with a big squad at his disposal, but Kutrieb will be keen to share the workload.

“We will have different challenges, there will be game time for most of the boys,” he said.

“Those who are coming back from injury, we will have an in-house friendly that they can get minutes in so we know who’s ready and not ready.

“The intensity ahead will be very high, it will be a peak in our load and we need to see