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ACCRINGTON Stanley midfielder Sean McConville has revealed the team had been down in the dumps prior to their recent 7-1 win over Bolton Wanderers.

Stanley’s last match saw them earn the emphatic victory, but McConville has lifted the lid on some of the difficulties the players had been experiencing in the build up to that fixture.

“We needed that win as a team as we have been down in the dumps about not getting results that we felt we deserved,” he told the club’s official website.

“On Friday, before the Bolton game, we got back to basics and we knew we had to work harder than the opposition and I think Bolton felt it from minute one.

“Even though we went 1-0 down, I felt we overran them, we got in their faces and we took the ball off them high up the pitch and people have said we were clinical on Saturday and the chances went in which we created but we could have had more.

“Colby Bishop and Ross Sykes both missed open goals with headers and I should have had a hattrick, Jordan Clark has missed one from six yards out and it could have been double figures.

“That’s no slight on Bolton as I like their manager and assistant manager but it’s just how well we played.

“We have set a benchmark now and we have got to put in those performances week in and week out.

“It was more of a relief for myself because I haven’t scored in the league this season so it was a relief for me to get off the mark.

“I felt like being subbed at half-time against Crewe in the FA Cup and getting left out of the starting XI against Rotherham, that was a bit of a kick up the backside that I needed.

“Hopefully I can push on and get to the levels that my goalscoring got to last season, that’s got to be the aim.

“I know I am a good player, I know I can score goals at this level and know, if I can keep working hard, it can turn for me.

“People judge us, rightly so, on the field but there have been off-the-field issues which have affected me this season.

“I have had a few niggly injuries, I had a shoulder injury which kept me out for a bit, I have had a bit of a knee injury which I had to get a couple of injections for and I have had suspensions, I have missed a few games, and other things as well.

“It doesn’t stop me,