Invicta Dynamos were on the wrong side of the fine margins as their South League Cup hopes were ended by Streatham.

The Dynamos were edged out of both games over the weekend to lose their semi-final tie 7-4 on aggregate.

For head coach Karl Lennon there was disappointment, not just in the result, but in certain stages of the tie where the Mos could have done more.

Lennon said: “We had two periods where we didn’t really show up, or at least in a way I was happy about, ultimately that cost us a place in the final.

“I knew they were capable of getting there but it didn’t work out for us.

“I have always said that this group of players are an extremely talented bunch, sometimes we have this tendency to over-complicate certain situations, we certainly did that at times on Sunday.

“There are fine margins that make a success or a failure of a situation, that was the case. The power plays were what cost us the game on Saturday and our own effort and focus was probably the loss for us on Sunday.”

The Mos lost 3-2 on Saturday in Gillingham before heading to London where they were beaten 4-2.

Continued suspensions meant they were missing Matthew Bell, Brandon Chard and captain Harrison Lillis, who is still nursing a fractured hand, all out as a result of the last visit to Streatham which ended in an abandoned match.

Saturday’s match was close but the Mos conceded two crucial goals during power plays.

“We were very unfortunate not to get something more out of the game,” said the coach.

“Even-handed we won the tie, five-on-five we were 2-1 winners, but the power play goals that they scored killed us in that situation.

“The first one was definitely a power play but the final one they got just before the end of the game was actually one where I had called our power play line to go on. I was certain that it was a power play for us but he gave it the other way and I don’t understand the reason.

“One of our players was chasing the puck back into our zone, in front of their forward who was pressing him, they tangled and fell down but it looked to me more like it was them bringing us down, rather than them bringing us down.”

From the power play Streatham scored and that was the end of the fixture.

“It was irritating,” said the coach. “It was 2-2 at the time and taking that into the second game would have been fantastic. I couldn’t fault the lads for their effort, they worked really hard.

“We did very well defensively, Owen Rider (the netminder) was excellent and there was some misfortune for us in front of goal, we hit the post and the crossbar, on another day it might have been a different score.”

It was still all to play for the next day. Sunday’s game was Mos’ first visit to Streatham since the match that had been abandoned after a fight.

“I thought the atmosphere in the whole building was weird,” said Lennon. “It was very subdued, the attendance wasn’t as strong as you would expect there, normally it is loud, maybe because it was later on Sunday night, I don’t know, or maybe it was the events of last time subdued it a bit.

“It was a weird environment and very quiet for large parts of the game. As a hockey player, you feed off energy, like on the Saturday when we had a good atmosphere at home, but it just didn’t feel like that.”

The Mos were 1-0 down after the first period.

“It wasn’t a terrible period,” said the coach. “We had our chances and moments, we just weren’t as decisive and as energetic as we had been the day before which was a shame.

“I think had we started better it could have been a different story.

“Our second period is what killed us really, we were pretty flat. They scored two goals that were almost identical where we just completely switched off on following the player into our zone and it was a frustrating period.

“Before the third period I was quite forceful in my opinion on how they were playing, which I felt was very poor, thankfully we got a reaction, the guys scored pretty early on in the period.”

Mos got it back to 3-2 on the night but the home side added a fourth straight after an expected icing call was waved off.

“It’s that age-old saying that you play to the whistle and then ultimately that was the tie done,” said Lennon.

Streatham will play Slough Jets in the final after their win over Chelmsford Chieftains.