Marcus Law felt some “horrendous mistakes” cost Kettering Town as they were condemned to their first away defeat of the season in the Evo-Stik League South Premier Division Central.
The Poppies were soundly beaten 4-1 at Banbury United as their poor recent form continued. Law’s team have now taken just four points from their last four matches and, having been clear at the top at one stage, they now sit four points behind leaders Stourbridge although Kettering still has three games in hand.
But the way the Poppies surrendered is giving Law cause for serious concern as they approach the Christmas period and a congested fixture programme in January - a month that could be decisive in the battle for the sole automatic promotion place. Trailing 1-0 at half-time, Kettering did draw level after the break thanks to a Dan Holman penalty.
But the Poppies collapsed after that with Law furious with the “individual errors” his team made. “We made errors and they maximised it, we put ourselves under a lot of pressure,” the Poppies boss, who confirmed the signing of striker Adam Cunnington ahead of the game, said.
We should have been happy when we got the game back to 1-1 and there should have been an opportunity to go on and win the game but instead we allowed it to get away from us. “We have conceded four goals and they have all come from individual errors.
“Three of those goals are ones I wouldn’t expect a team battling at the bottom of the division to concede, let alone a team who wants to be challenging for the title.
“We have to look at this closely and then make the relative decisions. “They were very difficult conditions and Banbury played them far better than us.
“There was a lot of gamesmanship to frustrate us but the way we conceded the goals was extremely disappointing.
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