Richard Dryden says the team have been ‘working and working’ on getting the Glovers firing again. Yeovil visit Morecambe (fresh off a 2-0 win against Brackley) at the weekend and with no wins and two goals in seven matches, Yeovil need to turn things around.
Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Josh Perkins, Dryden said: “We’re working and working on it [creating chances]. We need to be a bit higher up the pitch. We created a fair few chances and they stopped, probably from last month. We’ve maybe not has as much possessions as we’d been used to and a few other issues. So, we know what we’ve got to do more of, and we know what we’ve got to do better. So, you know, we’re steadily working on that.”
Morecambe – who came on the verge of going out of business this year – picked up a crucial win over 17th placed Brackley in the week, but have conceded 48 goals this season – more than any other team.
Dryden paid close attention to Saturday’s opponents on Tuesday night: “We watched these [Morecambe] Tuesday night and they were pretty good against Brackley. They’ve changed their shape, whether they keep that shape or not, again, it’s going to be about us creating and being solid possession. [There’s] a lot of attacking stuff from them. They move the ball quick. They’ve got good movement. They got players that can score a drop of a hat. I think that was proved on Tuesday night. Every game is tough, but we go into it with some confidence with how we can play against them.”
When asked about Prabhu Srinivasan’s comments about the ‘blueprint’ potentially resulting in promotion to EFL by the end of next season, Dryden said: “I expect every owner wants to be in the Football League this time next season. You look at the quality of the teams in there, we have to be realistic, where we are and that’s like every other club. We’ll give it a go. But where we can be, whether we’re there or not, the end of the season time, will tell.”
Dryden added that due to the frost (cold up North), they’d not been able to get on grass at SGS, but had ‘decent 4Gs’ to train on. Aaron Jarvis misses out this weekend after picking up a fifth booking against Southend, Jacob Maddox is ‘getting there’ and Brett McGavin will be back and available.
It does make me wonder about the mentality at Yeovil if we are talking up 22nd place Morecambe who can “score at the drop of a hat” and “move the ball quick” according to our manager.
What exactly can we do then Mr Dryden?