Ebbsfleet United manager Danny Searle reacts to 1-0 defeat to FC Halifax Town in the National League

Ebbsfleet manager Danny Searle insists it’s only a matter of time before they pick up their first win.

The Fleet remain rooted to the bottom of the National League after Saturday’s 1-0 home loss to FC Halifax.

It’s just one point from six games but Searle has been pleased with the performances in their last two matches, and can see plenty of positives.

“Barring a double deflected goal they haven’t really caused us any problems and we looked every bit as solid as we did at Braintree on Monday,” said Searle.

“We’re just not getting anything in the final third at the minute and it’s tough when you are down there.

“I cannot fault the effort, we didn’t stop, we tried to make things happen and for whatever reason it’s just not clicking.

“You can feel it coming, it’s not like there’s a giving-up mentality in the dressing room. There were a lot more positives than negatives.

“If you go (over the) goals we’ve conceded and chances we’ve missed, you’re thinking I’ve definitely upset someone up there because everything seems to be going against us at the minute.

“This is where you have to galvanise, life’s not easy and if it was then everyone would be doing it.

“There’ll be moments in games coming up that we’ll have our opportunity to seize it and we have to make sure we do that.

“I asked for effort and energy and we go that.”

It’s been a case of fine margins for the Fleet in their past two matches. Dominic Poleon has been thwarted by the goalkeeper in both games, while there was an element of luck about Halifax’s goal.

But on the back of four defeats at the start of the campaign, it heightens the lack of confidence in the squad.

“If we’d have played like that up until this point of the season, I don’t think we’d be sitting on one