Oxford City Stars 7 Invicta Dynamos 2: Reaction from Mos' head coach Karl Lennon after NIHL South Division 1 defeat

Invicta Dynamos had a night to forget against the Oxford City Stars on Sunday.

The manner of Mos’ 7-2 loss in Oxford surprised coach Karl Lennon after his side were out-worked by the opposition.

Coach Lennon hasn’t had much to complain about during a fine start to the year - this was only their third defeat in 12 games since the beginning of January - but a loss to second from bottom Oxford also meant losing third spot in NIHL South Division 1 led to the Slough Jets.

Lennon said: “It was terribly disappointing and one of those days where we didn’t show up really from start to finish, they had a very good start (Stars led 4-0 after the first period) and that put us in an incredibly difficult place to then get back into the game.

“As we took more chances on ourselves, because we were in a difficult position, they picked us off and scored on the counters and always at the worst time, we would kill a penalty and then they would score straight after or we would get a powerplay and not score ourselves and they would score straight after that.

“Everything seemingly went wrong from our side. I don’t think there was a player on our side who could hold their hand up and say they had a good game, pretty poor from everyone.

“Oxford were the better team on the night, they deserved it more than we did and they were good for the result, they played exceptionally well and we played exceptionally badly, and they deserved everything they got. A lot of it for me came down to hard work, they worked harder than we did and they got the result. It was quite simple.”

It’s not often Lennon has seen his men out-worked and said: “What is disappointing is that generally the team is always up for a battle, and I don’t know if there was a level of