Andy Woodman praised Bromley’s never-say-die attitude after Deji Elerewe headed home an 89th-minute winner to keep their promotion charge on track in a 1-0 win over Accrington.
The Ravens have now won six of their last seven Sky Bet League Two matches and are fourth in the table with their pre-season target of at least the play-offs.
It was a game of limited chances with Michael Cheek firing over for the visitors in the first minute and Stanley’s Shaun Whalley, who was clean through after 16 minutes, unable to find the target.
Both sides had spells of pressure without creating clear-cut chances and it looked like it would finish goalless until Mitch Pinnock’s cross was headed home at the far post by defender Elerewe.
Woodman said: “It was a tough day, Accrington dug in and limited us but we kept banging on the door, putting the ball into the danger area and hoping it would fall for one of our big guys, and it did right at the end.
“It was a quality ball in and it’s fallen on the head of our big centre-half Deji and he has put it in the bottom corner.
“It was always going to come down to a moment or a set-piece and thankfully it was our moment.
“My teams do keep going to the end. If there is one thing I would like next to my name as a manager is that, like I was as a player, I give it everything – and my players give it everything.
“We are on a good run, we are having a good season so far, but we haven’t achieved anything.
“The minimum target is the play-offs, we are on course and we have got to make sure we keep picking up the points.
“We have got to stay in the pack at the top and we might surprise one or two.”
John Doolan’s side were on a six-game unbeaten run which has moved them away from the bottom two, but he was frustrated with the late goal.
He said: “I had to control my emotions in the dressing room as we have done well recently, but I was so disappointed to concede from a set-play.
“Bromley are very good at set-plays and we knew the challenge and we had been so good at defending them all game.
“It had 0-0 written all over it and we probably had the best chance in the game which we didn’t take.
“We got sucked into the way they wanted to play, they made changes and my lads stood up to it for 89 minutes, we stood up to all the challenges, all the duels.
“But you have to defend for the full game. We have to stick together now and go again.”
