Margate joint boss Mike Sandmann hopes Saturday's win over previously unbeaten Enfield will prove a turning point for the Blues at home.

The Gate's 2-1 success was their first in the league at Hartsdown Park since the opening day when they beat Corinthian Casuals 5-2 – ending a run of four matches without success.

Joe Taylor was their matchwinner, his two goals being the Gate's first at home in the league since the Corinthian win, but Sandmann said it had been a real team effort. The win moved the Blues two places up the table to sixth.

Sandmann said: "We've been disappointed with recent performances, but that's a fantastic performance and with the right result to match.

"They're a good side and we fully expect them, come the end of the season, to be right up there.

"They're resilient but credit to our players and their performances today, we got the right result.

"We just haven't seemed to get it right at home, it's not for the lack of trying but I think teams have come, like Harlow and Haringey, and we're expected to break them down, but when teams like Enfield come to us and they take the game to us we've got a good structure behind the ball, good discipline and we can break on them and exploit them.

"It seems that we need to get that right and hopefully today is a step in the right direction."

Sandmann accused his side of lacking intensity in the previous week's goalless home draw with Harlow, but he felt they set the tone just right against Enfield, who had picked up four wins and five draws from their opening nine games.

Sandmann added: "We spoke a lot about it (intensity) during the week, and obviously over the recent weeks.

"The players have been disappointed in recent performances, but saying that before today we were seven points out of 12 so as much as we're disappointed with performances, seven out of 12 was not bad and that puts us 10 from 15, which is two points a game.

"We always look five games at a time and 10 points out of 15 is actually very good and we'd have taken that.

"We were disappointed with the goal we conceded because I don't think they had to work extremely hard for it.

"It took us five to 10 minutes to recover from that, it was a setback, but after that initial spell (from them) in the second half I thought we rode that out and finished the game extremely strongly. We deserved to win and I'm really pleased for the boys."

Both Margate goals came from Taylor, who now has seven for the season, and Sandmann says the striker has few equals in the Bostik Premier.

Sandmann said: "Joe Taylor, when he's in that type of form, there are not many better strikers in this league and if we can keep him scoring goals, keep him firing it gives us a good platform to build on."