Invicta Dynamos’ Southern Cup hopes are effectively over after back-to-back defeats over the weekend.

Mos lost 8-2 at Chelmsford Chieftains on Saturday and 6-2 at home to table-topping Streatham Redhawks on Sunday.

With the Redhawks five from five at the summit, and a considerable goal difference advantage, Karl Lennon’s side are playing for second place in their final two matches.

Maximum points over the weekend would have kept the Dynamos in contention but a disjointed display at Chelmsford set the tone for what followed on their home ice.

Ruskin Springer-Hughes and Owen Dell scored against the Chieftains.

Dell was also on target against the Redhawks, along with Stanislav Lascek.

“Ultimately, it’s a very disappointing weekend from our side,” said coach Lennon.

“We were pretty poor in different parts of each game and that cost us.

“We couldn’t argue that on both days we were beaten by the better side and it’s pretty devastating for us because I know on our day we can compete with both of them.

“Just recently we haven’t been able to do that so it’s time for reflection and trying to put that behind us.

“We’d had a pretty good start in the competition, with three wins from four, and if we’d got two wins it would have put us in a great position moving into the final few games.

“On Saturday we were poor in the first five to 10 minutes.

“We got a little better and it was only 2-1 after the first period but we hadn’t played well at all, in my honest opinion.

“They were very systematic in their approach, very strong in their performance and defensively very sound, and we just kept making silly little mistakes.

“We were turning pucks over in dangerous spaces and playing stray passes here and there and they took full advantage.”

You so often hear in sport of teams welcoming a quick opportunity to put behind them a poor result.

Dynamos had that chance when they met Streatham 24 hours later but it went the other way.

Lennon said: “A win on Saturday would have been a great way to set us up for Sunday but instead a loss, and the magnitude of it, added a somewhat negative effect on the Sunday performance too.

“I’ve said this to the lads, they’ve got to be more resilient.

“They can’t let one moment - in a game, even - affect them, they have to move on and put it behind them and we didn’t seem able to do that at the weekend, which was frustrating.

“We started well on Sunday. We had the lion’s share of possession in the first period and a lot of scoring chances but, against the run of play, they scored a soft goal.

“Shortly after, they got their second and it just killed our momentum in the game, and we met an inspired goalie.

“To be fair, both keepers played well against us over the weekend.

“We had our chances but we couldn’t score.

“It’s that culmination of you not scoring and them getting that bit of luck and you feel quite deflated after that.

“At 3-1 down going into third period, I still felt we could turn it around but it didn’t materialise.

“They’re the fine margins in sport and we have to be better because of it.

“That’s got to be the lesson from the weekend - resilience.”