Ebbsfleet United manager Dennis Kutrieb reacts to 2-1 National League defeat to Solihull Moors

Ebbsfleet manager Dennis Kutrieb has urged his team to show more urgency after losing for the first time this season on Saturday.

The Fleet failed to get going in the first half against Solihull Moors and their late rally was not enough to avoid a 2-1 defeat at Stonebridge Road in the National League.

“We definitely learnt that 45 minutes is not enough to deliver a good performance,” said Kutrieb.

“The first half was nowhere near good enough for us. Second half was much better, there was more urgency and it looked a bit different. That’s the harsh reality in the National League.

“We need to be a little bit more urgent so when we go forward, we really want to go forward and not for the sake of passing the ball around. If we can make good decisions to go forward and enter the box and get shots off then let’s do it and don’t wait for the right opportunity because you can see in the National League we won’t get every minute a chance to enter the box and score a goal.

“From this point of view, we have to make sure we do the right decisions and always have in your head we want to score goals. That was the most obvious thing for me.

“Both goals they scored were from our easy mistakes, I would say. Regardless of foul or no foul on Dom Poleon (for the first goal), he claimed a foul. But we need to learn that we don’t give the ball away easily otherwise we get punished and they go home with three points.

“We sit here and don’t know why we haven’t won the game but we need to do it better. The good thing is we have a chance straight away in three days and that’s the positive.”

The game’s most controversial moment came early in the second half when there appeared to be a foul on Fleet’s Greg Cundle in the build-up to Solihull’s