Maidstone United manager George Elokobi gives his verdict on 1-1 draw at Yeovil Town

George Elokobi described Maidstone’s National League South draw at Yeovil Town as a fantastic point.

The game finished 1-1 with Levi Amantchi’s first Stones goal cancelled out by Rhys Murphy in the closing stages.

Elokobi’s side held their own against a team widely expected to battle it out with Torquay for the championship.

Maidstone, completing the trio of relegated sides in the division, have barely been mentioned in the same breath.

But they were a match for the Glovers at Huish Park, keeping the home side quiet for long spells, and they might even have won it.

“It’s a fantastic point away from home,” said boss Elokobi.

“In my opinion, my boys did ever so well today coming to a club the size of Yeovil, the budget they’ve got here and the players they’ve got in.

“Our players have just played their hearts out and followed the game plan to a man.

“We talked about personalities and we talked about being bold, having characters in the team, in the squad.

“The way they play, they like to build up attacks but they can mix it up as well with the long throw-ins, so in order to stay in the game we had to make sure we were composed and patient with our defending.

“We’ve seen that from Braintree (2-1 win on Tuesday night) and we followed that through today and it could have been easily us taking three points home but we’ll settle for the draw.

“It’s disappointing conceding late in the game but again we have to look at restarts, we have to look at organisation because that’s what wins you games and that’s what loses you games but we stuck to the task.”

Lucas Covolan made a brilliant save from Morgan Williams’ header to keep Maidstone level at half-time - a key moment in the game.

The visitors went on to lead through Amantchi’s