DAGENHAM & Redbridge manager Ben Strevens felt the 2-1 defeat to York City summed up the Daggers recent form, after a stoppage time winner from Dipo Akinyemi handed the Minstermen three points.

Strevens was left feeling frustrated after a dominant performance from his side was untangled in the latter stages of the match.

The Dagenham manager didn't want to make excuses for the defeat, but felt his side handled taking the lead in a poor fashion.

"It sums up the last seven or eight games, finding all sorts of different ways to be in a position of winning games to go on and lose or draw them." Strevens told the Dagenham & Redbridge media team.

"I don't know how many times they changed shape to try and do something, eventually we backed off and got scared being 1-0 up when it should have been more.

"To then concede the goal and crumbling and letting the second one go in in the 94th minute, I'm really annoyed on the sidelines.

"What can I do to help them? We were in absolute control and had some key moments to score some goals, but we just kicked it clear and invited pressure on.

"I think they put four up front and went 4-2-4, and when someone does that against you you need to get the ball back and keep it.

"We just kept kicking it back to them so they could give it to their big guys in the final third.

"We were really in control up to the 70th minute, and ten minutes before the goal we were really trying to help them from the sidelines.

"We went from a position of comfortable to them changing the shape and putting loads of people forward, to being so scared holding onto something that it slips through your hands.

"Rather than keeping doing what we've been doing, because we did some really good things for 60 minutes.

"But it doesn't matter when the last ten minutes happens the way it did.

"We haven't really made any excuse for it because I hate excuses, I'm not that type of person.

"We have to do better as a collective and get the boys back on the training pitch ready to fight for the team."