Head of football John Still feels Maidstone are starting to look like a team.

The Stones lost 1-0 at Wrexham yesterday, edging closer to relegation, but Still had no complaints with the performance against a side going for the National League title.

He said: “It was a good performance, very good. In my opinion I thought we were the better team.

“There wasn’t a lot in the first half - they had the edge.

“Second half, after they scored, it was all us.

“I thought we were bright, I thought we were brave.

“The biggest thing we’ve been working on with the players is to move the ball quickly.

“It’s been hard but they’re picking it up, they’re working hard in training and the last three games we’ve looked like a team.

“When you play the best teams in the league away from home you’ve got to be solid first, which we were at Eastleigh - they scored right on half-time - and we were again today.

“I thought the boy took his goal well, Tollitt, but young Jake Embery came on and he showed some class.

“We want to grow him into the sort of player that can do the bits to win games for us.”

While praising the finish, the manner of Wrexham’s 49th-minute winner was the one frustration for Still having seen his side work hard to keep it goalless at half-time.

He added: “I said at half-time, for the away team that’s a top-class performance.

“I know where the goal came from, I know how it came, I know the reason it came.

“I’ve got to eradicate that or eradicate the player because they’re the things that win or lose games and we were good enough today to win the game.

“We were chasing it a little bit - we shouldn’t have been chasing it, we should have been able to pace it - but I’m a realist.

“There was a lot of work to do when I came in but we’re feeling a little bit of benefit now by the way we’re playing because I thought not only did we compete, we played some good football.

“It’s very, very encouraging. When you work hard - and we have been working hard - you want to see some results.

“It takes time. Stay on the yellow brick road, as I always say, and that’s what we’ve got to do.”

Read the match report from Maidstone's 1-0 defeat at Wrexham