Keith Curle is calling on his players to improve their defensive quality, as the Cobblers have made a shaky start to the 2019/20 season.
Seven games in and Northampton Town sit in 18th place. With an immense level of player turnover during the summer transfer window, the side has yet to fully settle and this has shown in their perfoirmances thus far.
That being said, there are some glimmers of promise within the squad. Keith Curle is confident these glimmers will grow across the squad:
“We want to build on clean sheets, and we want to get a number of clean sheets,” said the Cobblers boss”, he told the Northampton Chronicle.
“If you look at the personnel we have had, there have been changes within the back four or back five.
“There have been a number of players being bedded in, and on Saturday another new player came in in Michael Harriman (who played at right-back).
“Joe Martin also returned to first-team action, and they are all players that have joined the football club and are getting used to each other and getting that understanding.
“I think it will come, because for a large periods of the game against Plymouth I think we looked solid, and for large periods of the game at Bradford I thought we looked solid.”
Results have been mixed for Town, with two wins and four defeats. One of those wins were against one of the league’s heavyweights – Plymouth Argyle – before falling to defeat against bradford:
“If you have a look at the Plymouth and Bradford games, and if you had got a creditable point at Bradford, and it’s not disgraceful getting a point at home against Plymouth,” said the Cobblers boss.
“If we had done that we would have had two points from two difficult games and be pretty happy with that, well we have got three points from those games.
“The performance levels against Plymouth were very good, as they were for 55 minutes to an hour in the game at Bradford.
“So we just need to make sure we get that level of consistency, and that level of performance.
“We know that if we do that then results will go our way.”
Northampton are next in action against Newport County on 14 Saturday.