Neil Wood expressed the need for his Salford team to persevere and find consistency in his post match interview on Tuesday night.
The Ammies came from behind late in their midweek fixture against Harrogate to take home a deserved, but ultimately underwhelming point.
The Salford manager said: “I thought we deserve more. I thought we were the team on top for long, long periods of the game and even the goal I thought we gifted them as an individual error. We just kept going, I thought we played well in long periods of the game and got in good positions.
“We created loads of chances, got in good places at times, played with quality, at times it let us down. We’ve come out with a point, but it should have been 3 for us.”
Wood praised his team’s perseverance and motivation even in the face of bad fortune after two incredible goal clearances in two games have gone against his men.
He said: “I think if you see against Tranmere the lad clears it off the line, hits the post, hits his body and runs free. Then we’ve hit the woodwork twice tonight. Again, they clear one off the line, which I don’t know how they’ve cleared it off the line.”
“I was pleased with our lads, we kept going and that’s what we want. We want to be relentless. We want to keep going at teams and it felt like it was a bit of a red wave out there and some nights it just doesn’t fall for you.”
In the face of three difficult upcoming matches against Swindon, Barrow and Mansfield, Wood praised his team’s confidence while emphasising the importance of being ready.
He said: “We’re just taking one game at a time. That’s all you can do. They’re tough games, I don’t think there are any easy games anyway for anybody in the league because as you see everybody can take points off each team, no matter what position they’re in. So we’ve just got to be prepared. You know we’ve gone into every game confident we’ve prepared properly.
“We’ve got a good squad. We’ve got people able to start well, we’ve got people able to come off the bench and make an impact. It’s not wholesale changes that’s needed. We just need to keep working hard and keep doing what we’re doing.”
Wood acknowledged the need to capitalise on dropped points from teams around Salford in the table saying “It’s frustrating when you think you should win, and you have good opportunities to win and then you come in and you see other teams have drop points”
He added: “You see the results over the last few weeks it’s all sorts of teams beating everybody. Carlisle got beat 4-0 tonight, which nobody expected two weeks ago, Stevenage are drawing. So I don’t think it matters where teams are in the league at the minute. It’s quite a strong league.
“Every game is tough and we’ll prepare as we normally do and you know, it’s another game that. We will go and try and win the game.”
Nevertheless the Ammies’ manager remains optimistic about his side’s promotion hopes.
He said: “There’s still a long way to go. I can go back probably three weeks ago at Mansfield were somewhere down in 10th, 11th spot and now they’re one above us so things can change so quickly in this league, in the space of three games time.
“We’ve got to find consistency. We’ve got to pick up point when we’re not at our best and then when we’re all playing well, we’ve got to do all we can to get the three points.”
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