We are a match for anybody - Moore

Last updated : 07 May 2010 By Bigrich.....

The goals this season to put the Millers into a playoff position have come mainly from Adam Le Fondre with 27 goals and Kevin Ellison backing him up with 10 goals.

Moore told the Advertiser this week that he is "astounded'" that more players are not getting on the end of the balls fired into the box in matches, as they do in training, Moore stated: "The lack of goals has been a concern all season. If one man (Adam Le Fondre) or Kevin Ellison doesn't score, we struggle, and the rest need to start finding the net sharpish because there's some crucial games coming up."

Ellison ac 1"No-one does any more crossing and shooting than we do and it flies in when you see them in training, but they've got to take it to the matches. "With the quality balls that are going in, I'm astounded no-one is getting on the end of them. When games are tight, as they are at the moment, that's when we have to make sure our set plays are good because they can win you a game."

Even leading scorer Adam Le Fondre is finding goals hard to come by from open play, with his goals since the Dagenham game twelve games ago coming from the penalty spot, Ronnie said; "You say penalties, but he's still got to score them, you've got to have the guile to get up there and do it,"

Ronnie Moore ac11"If you're a striker going through a dry spell, you get anxious and what tends to happen is that you try try to take chances when you shouldn't, like on Saturday, when he tried to shoot from a tight angle when it would have been easier to play the ball to the back post where Drewe could have put the ball in the back of the net.

"Without contradicting myself, we're not creating enough chances, but we're in the play-offs and we've got to be happy with that. We know what's wrong. We've just got to tweak it a bit and it will come right."

"I don't want to be slagging anyone off, because the players have been magnificent. We went through a sticky patch where we couldn't win a game but we're on a decent run and we're not conceding.

Moore added: :"We were not happy to draw against Crewe at the weekend but after coming off and seeing some of the other results, there are an awful lot of teams who would like to be where we are. Two teams are going to Wembley and we have given ourselves a chance and hopefully we can take it. If we can play the way we know can in the play-offs, we are a match for anybody."

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