Buckland – We have three games to save our season

Despite two uncharacteristic headed Nick Sullivan goals giving the visitors a comfortable cushion by the midway point in the first half, EP fought back to pinch all three points in injury-time.

Captain Shaun Charles halved the deficit 12 minutes before the break and defender John Hampson headed home the equaliser with 25 minutes left to play, before Ryan Hallett netted an injury-time winner to inflict YM’s fourth defeat in six games, demoting them to eighth in the Division 1 table.

Buckland said: “It’s very disappointing how we can go from the lows of Broadbridge Heath to the highs of Dorking Wanderers, and then to today, which wasn’t terrible, but was very average.

“You can carry a player. You can have a player who is having an off-day. You can even substitute him. But I can’t carry five players. There were four or five players out there who were absolutely shocking today.

“Sometimes you get more than you deserve out of football. Sometimes you don’t get what you deserve, and I think that we probably deserved a point today, but the late winner summed it all up really.

“Once that final whistle goes, we’ve got to move on. Already my brain is thinking about the next game, the formation, the personnel, and the players have got to do the same.

“And it still isn’t too late. Look at the other results today. Wanderers and Littlehampton drew and Loxwood and Pagham drew, and so it would have been a good day to have picked up three points.

“It (promotion) is becoming increasingly more difficult, I won’t deny that, but I think that in three games’ time we’ll be able to say it’s definitely out of the window this season, or if we pick up nine points from the next three games, it might be back on again.”

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