Chatham Town 0 Enfield Town 3: Reaction from Chats boss Kevin Hake after their Isthmian Premier play-off final defeat at the Bauvill Stadium

Chatham Town boss Kevin Hake didn’t need to overcomplicate the reasons his team were beaten in their play-off final on Monday.

Chats had the better of the first half and had numerous chances in the second but were beaten 3-0 at home by Enfield Town.

Report: Chatham 0-3 Enfield Town

Hake said: “The guys gave everything and in the end it came down to who took their chances, as you find in a lot of play-off games. We didn’t take our chances and they did.

“We performed well but there is no point saying how great we played or anything like that, they are the ones going up to Conference South and deservedly so, they took their chances.

“The boys came out of the blocks and I thought they played well, particularly first half and we dominated, but when they were presented with a chance they took it and we didn’t. That’s football and if you can’t take the lows you can’t take the highs.”

Chats had finished second in the Isthmian Premier table which ensured they had home advantage against Enfield. They went into the game well-fancied to claim a third successive promotion.

Hake said: “We have had a really good opportunity to go up in our first season (in the Isthmian Premier), but hopefully the team will learn from that as a squad and look at it and say, ‘what can we do differently?’

“There was nothing we could have done off the field anymore, we prepped and we knew exactly how they were going to play, they did exactly the same against Wingate & Finchley (in their play-off semi-final). They didn’t play particularly well first half but came out of the blocks second half and won the game there.

“The third goal from our point of view came where we were chasing the game, which is fair enough, it is football really.

“We had a real