Ling issues O's warning
29 Oct 2007 - 11:44:41
Leyton Orient manager Martin Ling has warned his players that they will only remain in the promotion hunt should they improve their defending.
The O's slipped to a 4-2 defeat at Doncaster Rovers on Sunday just 24 hours after dropping out of the automatic promotion places.
"My players need to realise there are two sides to the game," said Ling.
"Everyone thinks we want to play pretty football, and it's true that we coach players to pass the ball to try to achieve that.
"But we also coach them how to defend, although you wouldn't have thought so watching us.
"The last three goals were down to individual mistakes and defensively we didn't do the job."