Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Defending needs to shape up

Hereford United got to cut out sloppy defending if they are to keep the pressure on Chester City at the top of the Nationwide Conference.

Talking to the Hereford Journal, Turner said of Hereford's 2-1 defeat against Burton Albion last Saturday: “We can’t keep conceding goals like that. It’s the area we’ve got to now put right, our defending.

“There’s still a lot of football to be played, but we’ve got to look at our own house. It’s no good looking at Chester’s results – unless we’re winning games we can’t consider ourselves potential champions.

“The first thing we’ve got to do to win games is to stop conceding daft goals.”

Andy Tretton could return on Saturday as United go to Gravesend & Northfleet, and Turner added: “Andy Tretton had an hour, and that’s positive, and we’ll see over the next couple of days how he has come on for that.”