Folkestone Invicta boss Andy Drury on the need for more goals from his side, their FA Trophy exit and aims to climb the Isthmian Premier table

Manager Andy Drury admits Folkestone need to become more clinical as they look to climb the Isthmian Premier table.

Invicta only have league matters to focus on for the rest of the season after they were edged out 2-0 at home to Southern League Premier Division South side Hanwell Town in the FA Trophy second round on Saturday.

Folkestone were without the cup-tied pair of experienced forward Joe Turner and young defender Joel Odeniran while Matthias Fanimo came off the substitutes’ bench much earlier than expected to replace Khale Da Costa, who sustained a hamstring injury.

Top scorer Dan Smith played the full game, having had his suspension after his red card in this month’s 1-0 derby defeat to Dover overturned, but he was kept quiet by Hanwell - and Drury accepted they’re too reliant on the 11-goal man.

He said: “We need to start scoring more goals - we know that.

“Our second top-scorer, Evans Kouassi, is on four!

“Amadou Kassarate and Tom Derry have three, Khale has got a couple, and Joe and Fanimo haven’t scored for us yet.

“We need to score more goals and be more clinical in front of goal.

“It’s up to the players to show that they can do it. If not, we might need to start looking elsewhere.

“But we don’t want to do that, really, because we believe these players are good enough.”

Depleted Folkestone fell behind against Hanwell shortly before the hour in front of a crowd of 602 and conceded a stoppage-time second as they threw bodies forward.

“First half, I thought we controlled the tempo and possession,” reflected Drury. “I don’t think they threatened us too much.

“I just felt we were not clinical enough. We had two or three really good chances and didn’t take them. We were not really on the front foot and we were