By James Briscoe
Nantwich Town boss Danny Johnson blasted his side’s 3-2 home defeat by Worksop Town as “totally unacceptable”.
Johnson criticised the team’s “incconsistency” as the Dabbers struggle to put a decent run of form together.
Nantwich got off to the worst possible start, conceding twice in the opening minutes as Worksop’s Shane Clarke and Tom Denton netted.
Oliver Devenney’s spectacular 35-yard effort brought Dabbers back into the match, and Matt Bailey levelled from close range with 20 minutes to go.
But Worksop stole the points when Jack Muldoon fired home two minutes later, and the visitors clung on for the win.
“It’s another loss no matter how we dress it up. It’s a loss at home which is totally unacceptable,” Johnson said.
“At 2-2 we could have gone on and won the game and that’s the real disappointing thing for me because we got ourselves right back at the top of the mountain.
“Young Max Harrop came on and gave us that bit of dynamism in the last third.
“People will say to me Max should’ve started, but Max hasn’t done that for us and that’s what we’re trying to get out of him.
“Once he can do that when he starts then he will start.
“What I can’t put my finger on is we go away to Rushall and draw one-all in a real solid team performance and then Fylde Tuesday with 1-1, we were solid again, and then we get beat by Rugby.
“The inconsistency at the minute is poor. I said to the lads before the game they need to start accepting a little bit of responsibility.
“There’s 10 games gone now, we’re on nine points, so we’re not getting there like I was hoping we would.
“And we will because we’ve got good players and we just need to stick at it but we’ve got to be better in the last third.
“The amount of chances we’ve missed today, Aaron Burns in the first half in the box on his own and he somehow manages to miss and we had another couple of chances when we were in the box and second half , the last 15-20 mins, seven chances?
“Harry and Max have both gone through right at the death and both were just hacking, slashing at footballs when they should be making the keeper work.
“But we’ve had enough chances to win the game 8-2 or 8-3 and we’ve not done that so there’s two things we’ve got to look at – one is defensively, but also in both boxes.
“The overriding factor is we are competing which is something for us to hang on to, we’re getting beaten by the odd goal, we’ve just not got enough at the moment to be taking all three points on a regular basis but the bigger picture is we’re competing and we’re not gifting teams an easy victory.
“I’m very, very disappointed with the outcome of the game, and we know we’ve got to improve.”
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