There are goals in the Kestrels promises confident Anderson
Woodley United 0 Fairford Town 1
JAMES ANDERSON is confident there are goals in his squad, despite Woodley drawing another blank against Fairford.
The Kestrels missed the chance to pull further clear of the Hellenic Premier drop zone with a 1-0 reverse to fellow strugglers Fairford at Rivermoor to extend their winless league run to seven matches.
And in that run, in which six of the games have ended in defeat, Anderson’s men have netted just three goals.
“We’ve had a few injuries to a few players but certainly that out and out goalscorer who’s going to get you 20-25 goals is difficult to come across,” Woodley boss Anderson told The Wokingham Paper.
“That’s where money talks in this league and rightly so. If you bring goals, you go to clubs where you can get paid a good amount and that’s fair enough.
“That’s how football works at every level. But we’ve definitely got goals in us, it’s just a matter of taking those chances.
“If you look at the amount of shots we’ve had on goal in certainly the Burnham game and then again at the weekend, we’re getting chances, it’s just putting them away.
“Toby Briggs has come in for the last fix or six games and he’s got two or three goals and two or three assists as well, so he’s really hit the ground running.
“Danny Horscroft is our top goalscorer with six goals or something like that. That probably says it all.
“Danny’s been playing brilliantly but he would say himself, he shouldn’t really be a leading goalscorer for a club.”
Fairford skipper Lee Smith ran the show at Rivermoor on Saturday, coming close to breaking the deadlock three times in the opening 15 minutes.
The hosts grew into the game with Callum SamuelHarman looking the likeliest source of a goal.
Both goalkeepers made good saves before the half was out with Alex Reed thwarting Dan Bailey before Iddy Kamara’s effort was tipped behind.
The only goal of the contest arrived midway through the second half when Smith lashed in and despite a late switch of formation, Woodley could not battle back.
“It is disappointing,” said Anderson. “But we knew it was going to be tough coming into this league. We knew that every team playing at this level has got a certain amount of quality about them and we’d be very much at the bottom of the pile in terms of the history of the club.
“This is the first time we’re competing at this level.
“But I certainly think the talent we’ve got in our squad and some of the performances that we’ve had doesn’t reflect the results we’ve had.”
Woodley go to leaders Highworth Town on Saturday.
WOODLEY: Reed, Barley, Hagger (A. Kamara 75), Guze (Davies 68), I. Kamara, Cooper, Englefield, Ledger, Briggs, Horscroft, Samuel-Harman (Nditi 57). Sub not used: Goddard. Attendance: 35