Paul Marshall has tipped Tadcaster Albion to bounce back from the 3-0 defeat to Cleethorpes
Paul Marshall has tipped Tadcaster Albion to bounce back at Retford United tomorrow.
Toolstation NCEL Premier Division leaders Tadcaster lost 3-0 to Cleethorpes Town on Tuesday night – the first time Marshall’s men have failed to score in the league this season.
Marshall said: “Sometimes you need a defeat to give you a kick up the backside so you can refocus.
“We have got to the top of the league because we have a good squad of players and a good team.
“Now it is about rolling our sleeves up for a big game at Retford.
“Losing on Tuesday could be a good thing. You look – we lost to Shaw Lane and then won nine on the bounce.
“After Staveley we won seven on the bounce so it is how you bounce back from a defeat.
“Everyone is going to lose games in this league because there is too many teams in it who can beat each other.
“There’s always a danger you can carried away (by being top of the league), but after losing to Shaw Lane on the first day, we would have taken being top of the league at Christmas.”
Tadcaster’s defeat came as a huge shock and so did their performance which was far from the levels they have reaches since August.
Brewers goalkeeper Pete Lawrie kept the score at 0-0 for a long period before Cleethorpes eventually broke the deadlock and cantered to victory.
Marshall added: “What went wrong? Probably from start to finish, we got outworked and I said to them that the word tonight was that we sloppy all over the field in possession.
“The shape didn’t work in the first half so we changed it for the second half and it definitely didn’t work.
“I thought Peter played well in goal for us and to be fair it could have been more if it hadn’t been for Peter.
“He made two saves from one-on-ones and he made a brilliant save for the third goal and we didn’t react.
“Obviously the second goal, Denny played a blind pass and it was own goal which obviously deflates everyone.
“It was going to be an uphill battle after that. We tried to make some changes, but it was a little too late.
“We have come back from it before and we didn’t give up hope, but the third goal wrapped it up.”
Denny Ingram and Jonathan Greening being their three match suspensions, while Josh Barrett may return from injury.