We’ll come good insists Whitaker
DANNY Whitaker still has faith that his Macclesfield Town side will improve over the coming weeks – despite suffering another defeat on Saturday.
The Silkmen were beaten 2-0 at MK Dons over the weekend, meaning they have now lost 13 of their 18 league games so far this season, winning just one and drawing four.
Macclesfield sit seven points adrift from safety at the bottom of the League Two table, and despite already being written off by many onlookers, joint-caretaker manager Whitaker is adamant that his team can come good very soon.
“We can only get better now, like I said we are getting bodies back with Elliott Durrell and Ryan Lloyd getting minutes under their belt, and myself too,” he told the club’s official website. “We have got Nathan Cameron in the door, I’m sure a few more training sessions will do him no harm whatsoever, but we have got a week’s training and then we will go again next week.
It was a difficult afternoon on Saturday as MK Dons are a fantastic outfit. They have got a big playing budget and some really good players, so we knew it was going to be tough from the off.
“I thought we held our own first half, did very well, created a few half opportunities, but coming in 0-0 at half time we are more than happy.
“They are up at the top of the league for a reason, they play some fantastic football and I thought we matched them in the first half and created our own half opportunities, which on another day, if you nick one, puts the pressure on them and it could be a different outlook but at the end, but it wasn’t to be.
“Elliott’s getting back fit so there was no chance of him making the full 90 minutes, so he was always going to come off at some stage and Ben Stephens had a tight hamstring. You can leave him on with the risk of him doing some serious damage, or do you get him off and save him for another day.
“I wasn’t planning on playing 90 minutes because I have only trained once in eight weeks, so that wasn’t the plan, but sometimes you have got to go with the flow and look at the bigger
‘They are up at the top and we matched them in the first half’
picture which is Yeovil at home next week.”
This weekend’s home game against Yeovil sees Macc take on a side who are 17th in the League Two table. They weren’t in action last Saturday, meaning their trip to the Moss Rose this weekend will be their first match in a fortnight. Yeovil were beaten 3-1 by non-league Stockport County in the first round of the FA Cup in their last game.