Alexander warns Salford will not be sulking
Leyton Orient assistant Ross Embleton (left) and head coach Justin Edinburgh (centre) exchange words with Salford City boss Graham Alexander (pic: Simon O'Connor). - Credit: Archant
The Ammies lost 1-0 at home to AFC Fylde on Monday, but will still believe they can beat Leyton Orient to the title on Saturday
Salford City manager Graham Alexander is very relaxed about the position the club are in with one match left in the National League this season.
A 1-0 defeat at home to AFC Fylde on Monday - following Alex Reid’s first-half goal - dealt the Ammies a hammer blow in their pursuit of winning the title.
Leaders Leyton Orient are now three points clear at the top and have a +5 advantage over Salford when it comes to goal difference.
City could still pip Justin Edinburgh’s team to the title, but they would have to win by a few goals away to Hartlepool United on Saturday and hope O’s suffer a shock loss at home to already-relegated Braintree Town.
You may also want to watch:
Even though it seems inconceivable, football is a funny old game, but if Salford miss out on the title, they believe they will join Orient in League Two next season.
Alexander told the official club website: “Everything is still possible and everything is in our hands whether it be this weekend or the play-offs.
Most Read
- 1 'Grenfell Tower'-type cladding still not removed from New Providence Wharf after 3 years
- 2 Cops break Covid-19 rules to have haircuts at Bethnal Green police station
- 3 Murder arrest after woman stabbed to death in Whitechapel this morning
- 4 Whitechapel murder victim named as teenager charged with killing
- 5 Covid hero who did charity walk in Bow aged 100 now has vaccine
- 6 Leyton Orient boss Embleton could rotate team for Bolton trip
- 7 Man sentenced after teenage boy groomed on Snapchat to sell heroin
- 8 Police e-fit expert retiring after 15 years at Bethnal Green
- 9 Lovely Day for Aldgate School picked to sing on Billy Ocean's new single
- 10 'It must be urgently addressed': New research into BAME Covid impact
“We have got the games we have to win and get promotion, so there is no need for us to be sulking and I told the players that as we walked off the pitch after the game.
“There is no to feel sorry for ourselves. We have done brilliantly over the last couple of months to put ourselves in this situation anyway and we still have the opportunity and it is still in our control.
“We just need to focus on that, but we need to remember the feeling we had around the team in the first half and the flatness we had and learn how to get out of that and that is what we have to learn from this defeat.”