Manager Kevin Horlock reflects on yesterday's defeat.
DK: Bit of a bitter pill to swallow?
KH: Yeah, I think today is really disappointing. I thought we controlled long parts of the game, created some chances but you've got to take them at this level. Unfortunately, we've missed chances at Hereford on Tuesday. We've done the same again today. It's cost us massively in a game where I was going to be disappointed to only get a point. To be sat here now with no points, yeah, it's a bit of a pill to swallow.
DK: Is it a bit of a curse being called manager of the week by the league?
KH: No, I don't think that's the case. I thought we did okay in the game. We just lacked a little bit of invention in the final third. We wasn't ruthless enough. On another week, we scored a couple of goals today but they didn't go in. We weren't confident enough. We didn't take the chances that come our way. When that happens, you always risk it coming back to haunt you, which it did at the end. It came from our throw-in, it's our fault we took it too early. We're not set and it's dropped a lad in midfield who's able to run 10 yards and it's a good finish to be fair to him. No doubt, they'll be leaving here over the moon and thinking they took three points but that's football.
DK: We're still waiting for our first point at home but it's not time to start panicking.
KH: No, I think if we win today, we would have three points off the play-off. There's a hell of a long way to go. I do feel that it's three points dropped, I'm not going to lie. The performance was there with that killer instinct in front of goal when chances come. There is positives to take out of it. We've dominated large parts of a Step 2 game again but we've not took chances to get the points, which is the main ingredient that you're after. We'll keep working hard and keep trying to put that right.
DK: We've had players returning from injury today and as far as I'm aware, we've not lost anyone to injury.
KH: No, I think Keiran come off, his groin is a bit sore but I'm sure he'll be all right by next week hopefully. It's good to have everybody back training and obviously, we've got the FA Cup next week which offers different challenges but we're looking to progress in that as well. Hopefully, by then, two training sessions we'll be firing on cylinders.
DK: Given that it's against the side that are the equivalent Step 2 league at home, we win that, that'll give us confidence because we haven't got anything at home just yet.
KH: Yes, obviously, the last two away performances have been really good and overall at the games we've played, performances have been fairly good. Today, again, I thought the performance was okay without that final third stuff, which bit us on the backside a little bit today. We're just looking to try and get that first win at home. Hopefully, that will come in the FA Cup next week and hopefully then lead to more results and more points being won at home.
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