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Little wants away day improvement



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Published Date: 26 August 2008
BRIAN LITTLE today rued Wrexham's poor sequence of performances away from The Racecourse.
Wrexham are still searching for their first win on the road after drawing 1-1 against Altrincham at Moss Lane yesterday, their third Blue Square Premier outing without a three point return.

In stark contrast the Reds boast a 100 per cent record at The Racecourse – and are yet to concede a goal – after beating fancied Stevenage Borough (5-0) and Oxford United (2-0).

And Little is disappointed with his side's displays on their travels having performed so well on home territory.

"It is disappointing based on that we have had two really good home performances and then three sort of different performances away," said Little today.

"For whatever reason, we aren't playing away from home the way we play at home. Nobody is telling them to do that.

"We are in a division where we are looked upon as being a team who they like to play against. And we are getting some reputation based on our two home performances.

"The disappointing aspect is we are not taking those performances away from home. We are capable of doing that. We have got to convince ourselves, and convince me. We have got to win games away from home.

"Today is a game that a lot of people would say we should have won. We have got a lot of things to think about and we will try very hard to pick it up."

For the first time this season, Little named an unchanged side at Altrincham, but he was bemused that the same players who earned victory against Oxford in the previous outing performed so poorly against Altrincham, who for the last three seasons have only avoided relegation because of other clubs' problems.

"The team that played at home is the same team that played here," said Little. "Do I have to pick a different team away from home?

"I can't have people doing it one week and then not doing it the game after.

"There are no instructions from us not to do anything other than get amongst them, get at them, play good football, put the ball in the box and try and score goals.

"But away from home we just haven't done that yet.

"I can't wait forever for the same team to produce the same result away from home, or the same performance.

"We might well find that we have got different personnel who can do it away from home. We will analyse everything and try and get it right on our travels because it important for us to get that right."

Wrexham, boosted by a huge following at Moss Lane, fell behind after just six minutes.

Despite Jefferson Louis equalising before the break with his third goal of the season, Wrexham could not come up with a winner and Little said only captain Tom Kearney emerged with any real credit.

"We started poorly, giving a bad goal away. We haven't given too many poor goals away but today was one," said Little.

"The start unsettled everyone and we never really gathered ourselves.

"Getting back into the game was hard work. Even when we got in good positions with free-kicks we did not get the right delivery. We showed when we get it right what we can do.

"I think everybody was trying, but for me only Tom was playing and you need more than that to win matches.

"Tom was the only one who put his foot on the ball at any time and tried to pass it around. I can't explain why we were as poor as we were.

"Within that, we still had a few chances to have won the game and perhaps should have done.

"I always felt once we got back into the game, we were potentially the only team that was going to win."

Wrexham once again failed to record victory after trailing – a common feature over the previous two seasons.

But despite drawing yesterday, Little is happy with the new-look squad he has compiled since relegation.

"I look at this campaign as being something completely different," added Little.

"I have put a group of players together that I would look upon as being my team at the moment within the guidelines I have got. I am happy with them but I am disappointed with them today.

"Today and at York we have not performed. I have to take the criticism for that same team performing like they did today.

"I am disappointed with my players, they should be playing better than that."

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