‘We can turn poor results around’

SEAN McConville admits that Accrington Stanley’s recent results are not good enough – but he remains confident the team can turn things around.

The Reds suffered a 3-0 defeat at Southend United on Saturday, meaning they have now dropped to 14th place in the League One table after four successive defeats.

McConville has been disappointed by the performances over the past month, but hopes the squad can take inspiration from when they were able to turn things around after a similar blip last season.

“We are creating chances and we are playing well. If you take last season when we were on a bad run we went back to the drawing board, played Grimsby and were solid. We played off second balls and won,” he said.

“This time, we don’t feel we have to do that because we are comfortably the better team in games, we are creating chances. On performance levels, we are playing well but we are not picking up any points and it’s tough.

“People who are watching us would say we are playing well but results-wise it’s not good enough. I think it will eventually turn with our performances and that’s what we are hoping. We are playing well but we aren’t scoring and are conceding soft goals.”