Matt Godden has revealed how Ebbsfleet’s senior players helped him end his goal drought this week.

Godden scored in seven consecutive games before Christmas and had 19 goals by the turn of the year but then went eight matches without finding the net.

The 24-year-old started to worry but then his colleagues stepped in.

Godden said: "It was a bit of the nervous nineteens. It did play on my mind, it always does with me. I’ve done it all my career. I go four or five games without a goal and then score one and go on a nine-game run or something like that.

"It started to get to me around the Bishop’s Stortford game. A few of the experienced boys, credit to them, Stuey Lewis and especially Aaron McLean and Danny Kedwell took me to one side, put an arm round my shoulder and said ‘look, you’ve not got that amount of goals for nothing this year so just keep going, it will come’.

"I appreciate everything that everyone’s said to me – the gaffer, Dave Jupp, Steve Gritt. They’ve all been in my ear but not giving me any stick.

"I beat myself up, I’m my main critic but I’m at that 20 mark now so I’ll be looking to push on."

Godden, who scored Ebbsfleet’s second goal against Havant on Tuesday, is confident they’ll go on to clinch automatic promotion, despite dropping too many points recently.

He said: "It could be better but we’re in a fantastic position. Sutton and Maidstone have to win every single game in hand, they can’t afford a draw, to be within touching distance of us.

"They both go to Truro and Oxford and they play each other, so we’ll see what happens.

"The end is in sight and we’ve always had the belief that we can do it. It’s just putting in the hard work and sticking together."