Maidstone United manager George Elokobi sees his players get back to work after their FA Cup heroics with 2-1 National League South victory over Dartford

Maidstone boss George Elokobi loved the professionalism of his players in their comeback win over Dartford.

The Stones returned to National League South action three days on from the excitement of beating Stevenage in the FA Cup third round.

Elokobi made sure the squad enjoyed the biggest result in the club’s history, encouraging them to let their hair down.

But they were back at it in training on Monday and moved up to third place with a 2-1 derby success.

Harry Kyprianou cancelled out Luke Coulson’s penalty and Matt Rush bundled home the winner as Maidstone struck twice in five minutes from Sam Corne set-pieces.

Corne’s routines were inspired by club analyst Ben Fuller.

The FA Cup would have been a ready-made excuse had the Stones not shown up last night - but they were determined to deliver another three points in their fight for promotion.

“I had no concerns about this game,” said Elokobi, who made five changes for the match.

“When one game finishes, our job is to go straight to work on the next game.

“Yes, we enjoyed the occasion on Saturday but the planning was already ongoing from last week for this game.

“We knew what we were going to do and what opposition we were coming up against.

“Dartford are never easy to play against and we gave them every respect in our preparations.

“We knew their strengths and their limitations and we knew we were going to have some fresh legs coming into the team.

“We prepared the players right for this game - their mindset, their mentality - to ensure come game time it was back to our bread and butter of the league and we wanted three points in front of our home crowd again.

“We didn’t want any hangovers and I thought the players’ attitude and approach towards training on Monday was