For a few moments last weekend, it appears that Bury would be able to get important points that would see them into the play-offs by the skin of their teeth. This is because the team had won two consecutive matches. They were aiming for a third straight win, but they came unstuck after suffering a 2-1 loss at the hands of Cheltenham Town. Clive Platt opened the scoring for Bury after just 16 minutes. This early goal appeared to take the wind out of Cheltenham, as their heads dropped almost immediately.
Rather than building on this advantage, but Bury let the lead slip after conceding an equaliser through Vincent. The lead had lasted for just two minutes before Cheltenham had equalised. The killer blow, though, was to come in the second half after the home team secured the winner through Harrison in the 82nd minute. Flitcroft said after the encounter that he was disappointed with the performance of his players more than anything. He says that the players did not show any intent of having come for a win.
This put them at a severe disadvantage from the start of the match. Flitcroft says that even a draw would have been an acceptable result for the team, but this defeat means that they remain a distant 17th.
“We didn’t show enough intent he told http://www.iloveliverpool.org. “We need to be ruthless and relentless in front of goal. As soon as a team scores you’re at your most vulnerable and you have to lock the pitch down. We didn’t do that. Then it’s no good just passing the ball and moving it well in the middle third if you can’t hurt teams. A draw would have been an acceptable point for us, so there’s a tinge of disappointment. We should have left with at least a point, I told the players that, but we’ll learn from it,” said Flitcroft.
