Faversham boss Tommy Warrilow felt his team deserved maximum points in their see-saw derby with Whitstable.

Town ran out 4-3 winners after recovering from conceding two goals in the first six minutes to keep their title charge on track in the Southern Counties East Premier Division.

“I thought we were the better team and deserved to win the game, it’s just the manner in which we did it,” said Warrilow.

“To go 2-0 down in five minutes 16 seconds, I know how long it was as I looked up at the clock, but as mad as it sounds we seemed to settle down and got into good areas, put some deliveries in and were getting shots off.

“The boys kept going and to come in 3-2 up I thought we deserved it. Even in the second half we should have killed them off a bit more, I know we got the fourth but Johan Caney-Bryan got under a couple.

“They’re a good side so I’m not going to take anything away from the result, the most important thing was three points.”

Warrilow was impressed with how his team reacted to the shock of conceding goals to Liam Gillies and Josh Oliver in the first six minutes.

He added: “You’ve got two choices, you can go 2-0 down and feel sorry for yourselves and start shouting and hollering or think we can’t get any worse, so let’s go again and see what happens.

“I thought if we got a goal back it would change it and the momentum would build.”

The derby was watched by the league’s biggest crowd of the season so far at Salters Lane with 1,193 entertained on a chilly afternoon.

Warrilow hopes they keep coming back as the season builds to an exciting finale.

“They’ve seen seven goals so from our point of view they’ve got their money’s worth and we want to see the crowds building up,” said the Faversham boss.

“You can see the difference it makes, it was a proper non-league game on a good surface.”

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And the late rally which saw Whitstable pull a goal back through Dean Grant before piling on the pressure in stoppage time, Warrilow added: “It would have been cruel on us to come away with just a point.

“Anyone that knows my philosophy is I’m very much attack-minded. I’m gutted we didn’t get a couple more goals to calm it down.

“Any team is going to go direct at the end and get bodies up and around there but we managed to see it out.”