Positives to take despite Horncastle defeats
Joint-interim boss Lewis Burchnall says he’s keen for Horncastle Town to take the positives forward into future games despite two defeats over the last week.
The Wongers fell 2-0 at Wyberton last Wednesday night before then being beaten 2-1 at home by Lincoln Moorlands Railway on Saturday.
But despite those results, Burchnall felt that the latter part of the Moorlands game in particular showed plenty of positives, Liam Cotton’s goal not quite proving enough to take anything from the game.
He said: “Against Wyberton we were just a little off it and that proved the difference in a pretty tight game with few clear-cut chances. They were sharper to second balls for most of the night and that’s where their two goals came from.
“Unfortunately we carried that slightly flat performance into the Moorlands game and just didn’t compete at all for the first half.
"However, in the second half we came out looking much brighter and soon got a goal back but couldn’t quite find the equaliser we probably deserved.
“We played some great football at times in the second-half and if we can take that into future games we’ll pick up plenty of points.
"We also got the Lincs League Team of the Month award for February, which should give the lads a lift.”
Horncastle now prepare to take on Barton Town Reserves on Wednesday (18th), after this week’s News had gone to press, before they then go to bottom-of-the-table Sleaford Town Development on Saturday.
Burchnall added: “It’s Barton up next who we only recently played and we’re keen to give a better account of ourselves this time.
"Then it’s a trip to Sleaford on Saturday as the games keep coming thick and fast.”
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