Hippolyte's Maidenhead side started the season with a 2-1 win at Ebbsfleet

Maidenhead manager Johnson Hippolyte said his team have no excuses for their 3-0 home defeat in the Blue Square South to Braintree.

Hippolyte admitted he gave the players a stern talking-to after the match.

He told BBC Berkshire: "I asked the team who thought they'd done OK and won their personal battles and no one put their hand up.

"So they know that it was a bad performance and let's just hope that we can do better on Saturday."

The Magpies fell behind in the 27th minute and Hippolyte admitted they never recovered from conceding.

"We started OK for the first 10-20 minutes, but then we let ourselves down," he said. "Once they scored we lost our shape, our ideas and creativity."

Two more goals in the second-half sealed the points for the visitors and Hippolyte said his team deserved to come away with nothing from the game.

"Over 90 minutes we weren't good enough," he admitted. "It's back to the drawing board I'm sorry to say."

Maidenhead next host Weston-Super-Mare on Saturday, 21 August.

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