DEAN Brennan feels Billericay Town were unfortunate to suffer a 2-1 defeat to Chippenham Town.

Adam Coombes’ close range effort cancelled out Nat Jarvis’ opener, but the visitors left the AGP Arena with all three points thanks to Karnell Chambers’ second half winner.

However, Brennan was left frustrated as Billericay were made to pay for a host of missed opportunities.

“I’ve watched it back and we fully deserved to win the game,” said the Town boss.

“We had so many golden opportunities that we didn’t take and that was frustrating.

“We asked the players to win the match in the first 10 minutes and we had good chances to do that but didn’t take them.

“Coombesy equalised and then we had a great chance to make it 2-1 but didn’t take it before Moses Emmanuel missed after half-time when he was through one-on-one with the goalkeeper.

“We needed to take those chances but then they scored the winner against the run of play.

“But the performance was decent and we had a lot of speed because of Jamar Loza coming into the team for his debut.”

Emmanuel could not direct his header on target after good work by debutant Loza as Town made a good start.

However, Chippenham broke the deadlock with 20 minutes on the clock as Jarvis found the top corner of the net.

Billy Clifford and Kieron Cadogan fired over the crossbar as the hosts looked for a quick response and the leveller came nine minutes before the break as Coombes slid the ball home.

Emmanuel saw his attempted lob go wide of the target moments after the interval as another chance went begging.

Cadogan fired a cross-shot inches past the post before the former Sutton United winger missed a golden opportunity on 69 minutes.

With the goal gaping, Cadogan headed wide and failing to take the chance proved costly as Chippenham restored their lead three minutes later through Chambers.

Billericay could not find a second equaliser and the hosts were dismayed as referee Matthew Russell waved away appeals for a penalty after Coombes appeared to be brought down.

“It seems as though everything is going against us at the moment and we should have had a penalty,” added Brennan.

“It was a clear penalty but we need to put the game behind us.”

Billericay Town: M. Smith, Kizzi, Howells, Potter, Efete, Clifford (Minhas 81), Cadogan, C. Smith, Emmanuel (Aransibia 70), Coombes, Loza