AFTER November rained points, Tunbridge Wells boss Martin Larkin must be ruing the onset of December.

After finishing the 11th month of the year with yet another win – this time a fine 2-0 victory over Beckenham Town on Saturday to make it eight without defeat – Wells came crashing down to earth on Tuesday night.

Larkin's side produced a disappointing display to lose 3-0 to lowly Corinthian and the Wells boss hopes his players will learn a valuable lesson.

"These days come along every now and then," Larkin said. "When you are building something, sometimes you are going to have these nights. We were on a long unbeaten run, but that can hide things – problems we may have.

"The important thing is to learn from it."

At Gay Dawn Farm, Sam Dixon, David Bryant and Sam Hasler got the goals for the hosts. After falling behind early on, Wells went on to dominate the game, but lacked creativity in the final third. Andy McMath and Jon Pilbeam went closest, but in the end it was a night to forget.

"We just did not create any clear cut chances," Larkin said. "If we had got one, I'm sure we'd have got four or five – we just had to get that first goal."

Wells had gone to Corinthian in high spirits, looking to make it nine games unbeaten and potentially move up to fourth in the Kent Premier League.

That was after they produced a superb display to beat Beckenham, at the Culverden, on Saturday.

Wells delivered a fine defensive performance to keep the usually lively Beckenham front-line quiet and second-half goals from McMath and Mike Lord fired them to victory.

Although, George Belchamber and Andy Callaghan were sent off for the visitors, which made Wells' task a little easier, this should not detract from the performance of the side, who had won three out of their last four league encounters.

"We were superb on Saturday," Larkin said. "We played very, very well. We battled in the first half, and after the break, going down the hill, we played them off the park. We were unbeaten in November. We climbed from third from bottom to sixth – you have got to be happy with that."

Tomorrow afternoon (Saturday), Wells will hope to bounce back from Tuesday's defeat with a trip to Hythe Town, a team sitting one place below them in the league.

"It's probably, for me, the hardest game we play in the league. It's an intimidating place. We need to match them physically and match them in terms of intensity.

"It was a shame to lose our unbeaten run. You are never happy when that happens, but as long as we learn from it, we will take it."