New signing Theo Lewis knows that Ebbsfleet United's spending power has made them the team everyone else wants to beat.

Lewis joined the Fleet from Woking last week for an undisclosed fee.

He started their FA Trophy win over Forest Green Rovers on Saturday and is set to make his league debut this weekend when Jamie Day's side travel to Sutton United.

Fleet are seventh in Vanarama Conference South, one point outside the play-offs and 13 adrift of leaders Boreham Wood with two games in hand.

Lewis said: "We want to be higher in the league. We need to get in the play-offs.

"A lot of teams, when they play us, we’re going to be their big game, they’re going to want to do us over because they’ve heard good things about Ebbsfleet, blah blah blah.

"But with the group of players we’ve got here, they’re going to be used to it because they’re experienced and they’re very good players.

"If you want to win the league, go up, you’ve got to handle the pressure as well as playing the games."

Lewis, who won promotion to the Conference with Salisbury in 2012-13, played 25 times for Woking this season and helped the Surrey club climb to as high as second in the table.

"Woking were doing really well," he said. "At the start of the season, we were on fire and we didn’t lose for about 12 games. But the Christmas period was a bit tricky with such a small squad and there were tight resources there.

"My long-term goal, and Ebbsfleet’s, is to get into the League. I can look at it like ‘I’ve stepped down a league’ but sometimes you’ve got to step back to go forward, to move on. That’s how I look at it."