Ebbsfleet manager Dennis Kutrieb was frustrated his team were unable to kill the game off at Tonbridge on Saturday.

The Fleet led through Josh Wright’s first-half goal in National League South but were pegged back when Scott Wagstaff scored late on for Angels.

“I’m fuming to be honest,” stated Kutrieb. “We’re still unbeaten and that’s fine to come away with a point but it was very careless from us (not to) score from this many transitions a second goal, as 2-0 it was game over.

“You could see they were waiting for one set-piece, they had one extra shot and that’s it in the 90 minutes. We dominated them in the first half, very good. Second half we couldn’t score the goal and then they came (into it) more and more.

“I’m not happy just because we need to score the second goal and we had more than enough chances.”

Kutrieb felt his players needed to be more ruthless, not just in terms of shooting but also making the most of their breaks in the second half.

He reflected: “We had the chances. It’s not like we didn’t have the chances. I’m not worried as we had the chances to score a second goal.

“They’re a good side and are pushing hard for the play-offs. They came (at us because) they were thinking if we don’t take our chances then we can give it a go and maybe we have a chance.

“They put us under pressure, got a set-piece and we were not ruthless enough to defend that one. You can always concede a goal. It was just about us not scoring a second goal.

“It was not shooting missing, it was determination missing and putting the ball in the back of the net. If it needs to be a shot or a pass. Like (when) we scored our first goal, we can blame Omari Sterling-James for not shooting but he passed to Josh Wright, who hit the crossbar and behind him was Dominic Poleon all alone.

“We had to play out the counter breaks much better like we have done previously this season.”

• Report: Tonbridge 1-1 Ebbsfleet

It’s the second time that Tonbridge have taken points off the Fleet this season, Jay Saunders’ men won at Stonebridge Road to end Ebbsfleet’s unbeaten league start to the campaign.

“It’s on us, not on them,” stated the Fleet boss. “If we score the second goal it’s game over, simple as that.

“Similar to the first game when if we’d taken our chances, we win that game comfortably. In both games we were not good enough to score a second goal and this was similar at Stonebridge Road. The difference here is if we score a second goal then it’s game over.

“I couldn’t see any complacency because we had a massive performance in the first half against a good side. You could see they wanted to play but they couldn’t because we put them under pressure so they started to go long and we won nearly every header in our defence.

“We played patient enough, we had our chances. It’s not about complacency, it’s about being ruthless and making one more good or right decision.”