Derry – Take Frustration Out On Port Vale

Manager Shaun Derry has said that the team need to take out their frustration from the defeat to Brentford on Port Vale when we face them next weekend.

Speaking to the Official Site following the three one loss, Derry admitted that everyone was hurting when it came to seeing our three match winning streak brought to an end, but our hopes are alive still, and the task now is to get back on a winning streak, starting with Port Vale.

‘It’s a setback but that’s all it is and I knew that coming into the game what would determine our season. We’d have needed to play exceptionally well and hoped that Brentford would have had an off day for us to get something out of it. For me, they’re the best team in the league so fair credit to them. It’s a setback but I know it’s going to be the home games that determine what is going to happen at the end of the season.’

Derry says that in the dressing room his speech was basically take it on the chin, forget about it, and focus on our next match and focus on returning to how we can play and getting back to winning ways, because at the end of the day that’s all we can do realistically.

If we need any extra motivation for the game, the gaffer says the players can channel their disappointment from this match into the next one to ensure they don’t feel the same again at full time next weekend.

We were pushing on nicely and doing well, and that’s what we have to get back to, but we are still in a relegation battle and the gaffer seems pretty confident that the team will redeem themselves at the next time of asking, and that is all he can ask of them.

Obviously the return of Alan Judge could’ve gone better, but the gaffer also knows that in terms of how the game played out, the red card received by Haydn Hollis certainly didn’t help us ‘get to grips’ with them, so whilst he knows had we remained at eleven on the pitch a result wouldn’t have been guaranteed, he did talk about seeing it as a turning point in the match and he did have disappointment in terms of how he felt we were ‘overawed’ on the day, and despite how good they are we shouldn’t be letting that happen.