Bottom club Braintree expose Salford’s Achilles

SALFORD City manager Graham Alexander was left disappointed after his side suffered a first defeat of 2019 at the hands of bottom-ofthe-table Braintree Town.

After a goalless 90 minutes at the Cressing Road Stadium, Callum Morton bundled in a free-kick from the right to convert a valuable point into three priceless ones in their battle for survival.

“It’s cruel if you’ve played very well and battered the opposition then get done, but that’s not the case,” said Alexander. “The goal has cost us a point, the other things that we’re looking for from our team which we’ve produced on many other occasions against the best opposition in this division, we’ve not repeated against other opposition.

“We have to sort out this blockage in our minds where we approach any opponent the same way each time, have the respect and discipline to be performing, competing all the way through the team and doing the things that we’ve worked on in the last six or seven months that have bought us success and sticking to those, not going off on our own way as individuals.

“There has been a difference from beating Wrexham and going to Leyton Orient and having two fantastic performances in every aspect to then playing teams lower down the division and not turning the same type of performance.

“The overriding feeling is massive disappointment that we’ve lost the game against an opponent we shouldn’t, if we do the things right.”