Invicta Dynamos’ win over Chelmsford Chieftains on Sunday ended up being closer than it should have been.

Mos head coach Karl Lennon was pleased with the victory, winning 4-3 in their Gillingham rink, but wants his men to cut out the kind of errors that let the Chiefs in with a chance of a late fightback.

Lennon’s side recovered from a nervy start to lead the NIHL South Division 1 match 3-1 at the end of the second period, adding another to make if four, before a tense finish.

Coach Lennon said: “We were really happy with the win but for me, 4-3 doesn’t reflect the game. I thought we were more competent than that. Ultimately, a win’s a win, but we would have liked to have done it in a cleaner fashion.

“There were unnecessary little errors and once we can get those poor decisions out of our game we will be a much stronger proposition as a result.

“We’ve had a couple of games where if we had managed our decision-making better then we would have won games more convincingly and also we might not have lost that first game.

“There are things players can learn from and be better.”

Goals for the Mos came from Tom Soar, Mads Thune, Tommy Huggett and Stanislav Lascek.

Reflecting on the match, Lennon said: “It was quite an even contest throughout a lot of the fixture, our first five minutes we were very tentative, quite nervous which I could sense and they took advantage of that.

“We resolved some of the issues, didn’t make any dramatic changes, tried to up the intensity and we had a flurry of chances, three or four good opportunities but their goalie Jordan Lawday (one of several new signings from the league above) was outstanding, with two exceptional saves.

“You could see the quality of their new signings in the roster and he’s one of them. You think, ‘Oh, wow, this is not going to be an easy task’, but we managed to scramble a goal in during that first period.”

The first period ended 1-1 before Mos then excelled in the second.

Lennon said: “We put them under pressure and had longer periods in their zone.

“Mads scored an absolute rocket of a wrist-shot into the top corner, across goal, that changed the momentum towards us.”

Huggett made it 3-1 from a well-worked goal off a power-play and Lascek added another early in the third period. The Mos were well positioned at 4-1 up.

Giving away a goal from their own power-play gave the Chiefs hope.

“We had the puck in their end and unnecessarily threw possession back them,” said the coach.

“We just had to kill the puck for a minute or so but we didn’t do it. There was a little bit of panic and they scored another from a poor defensive error.”

Chiefs pulled their netminder Lawday at 4-3 but the Mos hung on to take the win, with victory also counting towards their League Cup points tally.

Lennon added: “I was happy with the performance, happy with the win, things to work on as always, but it’s good to be up to second in the league after a few games.”