Paul Jewell admits that there are likely to be a few nerves if the Blues go into the closing stages of tonight’s game at Burnley holding a slender lead, having turned 2-1 advantages into 3-2 defeats in their last two games.
Jewell believes there’s only way to overcome those jitters: "We’ve just got to get over the line. We’ve just got to win the games.
"Footballing life is about little hurdles and at the moment if we’re 1-0 up or 2-1 up with five minutes to go, it will be in the back of our minds. The only way to get rid of that is by winning the match.”
He says Town will have to work hard to end their run of five defeats: "Nobody in this game gives you anything for nothing, so we’ve got to earn that right.
"We’ve got to get blocks in, we’ve got to stop balls coming in our box, we’ve got to stop giving silly fouls away. It’s just over-eagerness and a bit of anxiety has crept in. We won’t be any different to any other team that’s had a bit of a spell.
"I spoke to [Chesterfield manager] John Sheridan [on Sunday] and his team is exactly the same. The only way to get over it is by winning matches. Once you win a game, your confidence grows. There’s no pill, there’s no magic formula - it’s just hard work and graft.”
Jewell has faith in his team and feels there’s still time to turn the campaign around, particularly when the division is so tight: "We’ve got good players in the squad, it’s just not happening for us at the moment.
"We’ve still got a lot of time left in the season, we’ve got a lot of time to climb the table but we also aware we’re at the wrong end of it, we’re not kidding ourselves.
"We’ve been so close in the last couple of games, it’s not as if we’ve been played off the park. We haven’t played well, we certainly didn’t play well on Saturday, but we could easily have had six points out of the last two games and everything would have been rosy.”
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