Kings Langley stopped the rot of back-to-back defeats after picking up a deserved point at King’s Lynn Town on Tuesday night.

Having lost 3-0 at Banbury United on Saturday, a week after an embarrassing FA Cup exit to Hadley, they struck first in the midweek clash through Josh Chamberlain, before being pegged back after half-time.

Kings are now almost a quarter of the way through their season and have taken 12 points from their opening 11 games, and following a meteoric rise of three promotions in a row, are still holding their own one division below the National League regional tier.

Lewis Toomey was forced off 24 minutes into their midweek game, having only just recovered from a hamstring injury, and was replaced by Immanuelson Duku.

By that time, they had seen Dylan Edge fire over when well placed and Toomey himself lift a chipped effort just wide. But they took the lead shortly before the break when Chamberlain robbed a home defender of the ball before netting.

After the break, King’s Lynn improved but found their visitors in fine fettle, until five minutes after the hour mark their defence was finally breached, when Kurtis Revan turned in the box before equalising.

On Saturday, three goals in six minutes saw Kings defeated 3-0 at Banbury in their heaviest loss of the campaign so far, and their first by more than a single goal.

Despite the scoreline, joint manager Paul Hughes was left happy with his side’s work, and pleased to see them bounce back with a midweek point.

He said: “The lads did well at Banbury for large parts of the game. Banbury were good and kept possession very well.

“We matched them for long periods and they scored their three goals in six minutes when we just lost concentration.

“We focused on defending set-pieces between because they could make the difference in tight games. It was highlighted against Kings Lynn, the quality in the final third; we miss Lewis Toomey when we don’t have him, we rely on him.

“Josh Chamberlain has got great quality and if you get him in those positions he will normally deliver. We do hassle teams and we are hard to break down in open play. We’ve got that quality, but we just need to show it in the final third and the players have got to step up.”

With some players still at the club who have followed the side throughout their rise up the leagues, Hughes feels only fine margins are separating them from a rise up the table in the Southern League Premier Division.

He said: “It’s those fine margins which haven’t always gone for us. We could go and win a few games now if we tighten them up.

“It wasn’t a bad performance on Saturday, and then we went on to face King’s Lynn, who were a tough team.

“It was a lovely stadium, probably the nicest we’ve played in and we felt we would have won the game had we shown more quality in the final third.

“We could’ve had a few very good goalscoring chances with a better ball. But saying that, they missed a free header at the end and if they’d scored we would have gone home with nothing.”

Kings face two sides below them in the table in the shape of St Ives and St Neots Town in their next two games, but Hughes is not expecting an easy ride.

“We came up with St Ives last season, they beat us twice and they are very organised,” he said.

“We went to see St Neots play and they are a good team too.

“They aren’t bad teams because they haven’t had a great start; if you click on the day, we can win, but if we don’t concentrate we could end up losing.”