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We stopped doing what we're good at - Denton

We stopped doing what we're good at - Denton

Gordon Foster5 Dec 2017 - 15:09
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RAINWORTH MW’s nine-match unbeaten run came to an end at Bottesford Town on Saturday to the frustration of boss Craig Denton.

After some scintillating football and a 1-0 lead from the first quarter of the match, the Wrens lost their way and succumbed to a 2-1 defeat with both goals the result of errors.
Denton was in no mood to make excuses in his post-match interview. He said: “I could say we were without three or four players and only had three on the bench, but that’s not going to happen.
“The team I put out should have been strong enough to have got something from the match, but they didn’t do it.
“In the last nine games we’ve played a certain way, and our attitude has been positive, but today we just didn’t do that.
“A couple of players have tried to do things we simply don’t do and have not done all season, so I’m very disappointed that we’ve come away with absolutely nothing as a result.
“Bottesford seemed to want it more than we did today, they dug in and worked hard, and we’ve inexplicably shied away from that.”
Denton admitted that the pressure of keeping the run going – a run which resulted in him being named Premier Division manager of the month for November in an on-line poll – has been intense.
He continued: “We are all aware that our opponents know they are coming up against an in-form team, and the longer a run goes on, the more the opponents lift their game. So that means we have to keep on improving, to keep our run going. But now we have a bit of a reality check ahead of our game against Bridlington.
“We know that will be a hard game – we won 2-1 there in August. Since then they’ve added a few new players as well as losing one or two, but for us we need to rediscover and put into practice how we played in that long unbeaten run so that we don’t have another performance like this.
“For the first 20 minutes we moved the ball around, and kept the ball for fun, and it was great to watch, but we didn’t do what has brought us our success over the past two months – so we go again and look forward to our next game against Bridlington on Saturday.”
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