BARROW AFC boss Stephen Clemence is backing his side to get back on track against Cheltenham Town at Holker Street today.
At the time of writing, the Bluebirds head coach wasn’t sure if he would have to add any more walking wounded to his considerable injury list.
Clemence told The Mail: “I’m waiting to see where we are at. At the moment, I need to see who we have out on the grass and go from there.
“Hopefully, there won’t be any more names added to the list.”
Clemence is currently without a number of players, who would be likely to be starting games if they were fit.
But while he admits that is far from ideal, he has faith in the players at his disposal to deliver.
He added: “There’s no getting way from it, we have been hit by quite a severe injury list.
“Anyone that has five key players missing will suffer a little bit, but that doesn’t mean that we just say ‘ah well we can’t win the next game’.
“I still believe we’ve got a team capable of to go on and take on Cheltenham this weekend.
“I felt we had a team capable to go and take Doncaster and Gillingham, and do you know what on another day we had a great chance at Gillingham where we could have got an equaliser, but there goalkeeper made a great save and you don’t know what could have happened in that game if we’d scored.
“And at Doncaster we had a couple of moments at nil-nil, where if they go in for you and you get the rub of green, then again the game could have worked out differently.
“So, we are talking fine margins here.”
The Bluebirds go into today’s clash on the back of three consecutive defeats – one in the cup to Premier League giants Chelsea, and two in the league.
While that’s something that Clemence and his squad are looking to put right at home today, it is isn’t something that is giving the Barros boss cause for concern.
He said: “I think our performances have been very good up to, well let’s take the Chelsea game out of the picture, our last two our away performances where we weren’t bad, we probably just didn’t create as much in those games as we have been creating up until that point.
“Like I say it has been fine margins, and I don’t think against either Gillingham or Doncaster we were outplayed.
“We know what we have to do, and we are working on that, but I don’t think we are too far away from getting back to where we were before those games.
“I’ve said it before but these players are hungry to do well and I’m sure they will be looking to get back to winning ways today.”
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