LONDON, CMC – St Lucia worldwide Dominic Poleon stated attempting to earn relegation-threatened Ebbsfleet United factors was extra essential to him quite than his climb up the goal-scoring charts within the fifth-tier English Nationwide League Championship.
The 30-year-old striker scored his eleventh and twelfth targets for the season within the second half to attract stage in sixth with Will Grigg of leaders Chesterfield on the scoring chart earlier than Bromley outgunned Fleet 3-2 on Boxing Day at Stonebridge Highway Stadium.
“It’s powerful in the mean time,” Poleon stated. “You’re half pleased with a objective, however proper now, within the place we’re in, I wish to win video games, and if I may take successful video games over scoring targets, then after all I might. We have to refocus and put it proper within the subsequent couple of days.
“It’s bitter-sweet. You’ll be able to solely half-enjoy scoring as a result of the outcomes matter now, so I’m simply attempting to do my job like everybody else is and assist the workforce now.”
Poleon wants just one extra objective for his seventieth for the membership, and he’s 5 away from getting into the Nationwide League’s all-time prime 10 scorers listing.
Ebbsfleet discovered themselves trailing at half-time after Michael Cheek put Bromley forward with a end from shut vary within the ninth minute earlier than Poleon acquired his first within the 53rd on the far submit.
An 18-yard volley from Ben Krauhaus within the 66th minute and a strike from Olufela Olomola within the 74th minute damage Ebbsfleet earlier than Poleon claimed his second within the dying moments of the second half.
Ebbsfleet is twenty second within the League on 24 factors, and Poleon stated the resilience his aspect displayed within the second half towards Bromley was wanted to allow them to keep away from plunging to the sixth tier of the English league system subsequent season.
“If you begin slowly and issues aren’t going your means, that efficiency is precisely what you hope for within the second half,” he stated. “To come back out and impose our recreation on the opposition.
“Nevertheless it wasn’t meant to be, and we’ve acquired Bromley once more in a few days, so hopefully we will put it proper.
“If we will begin that recreation how we began the second half, issues will hopefully be in our favor, however we’ve acquired to begin proper. We will’t preserve killing ourselves and going behind to attempt then and climb a mountain.”
The primary objective from Poleon personified nice predatory intuition after he timed his transfer completely in the direction of a supply from Ben Chapman with the opposition searching for off-side. On the identical time, his second was a burst of tempo that epitomized his time with Fleet.
“For the primary, I knew Chaps was going to place the ball there, so I simply wanted to time my run, and I used to be in the best place on the proper time,” he stated.
“I’m a striker, I’m there to attain, and in the event you don’t rating, then you definately’ve acquired to make targets, however it’s a very disappointing feeling to not have something on the finish of that recreation.”
He added: “Boxing Day was disappointing. It’s the high-quality margins. I didn’t suppose we performed badly, simply a few errors which might be costing us now, and that’s the luck we’re getting.”
Ebbsfleet faces Bromley in a return match on Saturday on the street at Hayes Highway.
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