Dartford FC boss Tony Burman not happy with his team's performance in the 1-1 draw with Chelmsford City
00:00, 03 January 2016
Dartford's 94th-minute equaliser against Chelmsford on Saturday did little to improve manager Tony Burman's mood.
A win would have moved the Darts up to fourth in National League South and although Tom Bradbrook's dramatic late strike extended their unbeaten run to 10 matches, Burman wanted more.
He saw the visitors go ahead through Billy Bricknell's header on 80 minutes before substitute Bradbrook nodded in his first goal since October.
Burman said: "When you’re playing at home you want to take three points. We’ve got one and we were a bit fortunate to get that at the death. We’re disappointed to drop two points in a home fixture.
"The players have got a never-say-die attitude, which is a massive plus for us. It’s pulled us back into games which we looked like we were going to lose.
"But on the overall performance, it didn’t quite work. We had the work-rate but we didn’t have the little bit of intelligence to open them up.
"We probably gave Chelmsford too much respect. They were on the ball a little bit more than us and we could have closed them down a lot better in the first, which is what we’ve been good at.
"I felt we didn’t do that well enough in the first half and we didn’t get going in the second half either.
"I don’t think we created enough chances. When we weren’t scoring earlier in the season, I thought we were creating chances.
"We had enough corners and the deliveries from set-pieces in the first half were good. I can’t say they weren’t and we need to start getting on the end of that."
Left-back Mark Onyemah, who's been with Dartford since the start of the season, is now due to return to his parent club Luton Town but Burman hopes he hasn't seen the last of the 19-year-old
He said: "We’ve got to see what’s happening at Luton. They used to call their loan players back.
"His last game was today until maybe a new agreement might happen.
"Luton still need a new manager so we’ve got to talk to them and see what they want to do first.
"But as far as we’re concerned, we’ll be trying to keep Mark for a little bit longer."
