Mark Kennedy said that luck is the one thing he doesn’t have right now as Swindon Town have won just once so far this season.
Following a frustrating 2-0 home defeat against Carlisle United last weekend and now head to Port Vale for their eighth game of the league season with just one victory.
The former Liverpool winger has retained throughout that Swindon have been performing better than the results would show, with the team showing up strongly in terms of both attacking and defensive metrics.
Kennedy revealed that he had spoken to owner Clem Morfuni after the Carlisle and shared that he felt the only thing missing so far was good fortune.
He said: “When I look at the processes, when I look a training, when I see the behaviours of the players, and when I see the numbers that we distribute post-training in terms of the physical output, I just see a group of people who are connected and united together and are desperate to do well for each other and for the club.
“On a day-to-day basis, we tend to walk off after training and think ‘This is really good.’
“I spoke to Clem on Saturday night after the game and he said ‘Is there anything I can do for you?’ and I said ‘No, just relax and be patient because we are going to be fine.’
“His question about how to help and what more can be done, I just said ‘You can’t do more, if there is one thing I want you cannot give it to me because it is luck.’
“Every coach needs that, Pep Guardiola, the big hitters like Mikel [Arteta], they need a bit of luck as well, everybody needs it but sometimes you make your own.”
Town’s defensive statistics so far have been very strong with very few chances being created against them but despite this, they have conceded ten goals in seven matches so far.
Kennedy added that he believed that if he did not see all of the things he was looking for in the performance of the team in games and in training then he may be worried about what was going on but he had absolute faith that the results would arrive.
He said: “I don’t see teams opening us up, I don’t see Jack being busy, and the number of touches in our box is really low – I think all of those things are really good.
“The shots against us are quite high but people are having to shoot from distance because they can’t break our defence down.
“Defensively I think we are very good but we are in the top five for goals conceded; some of it is down to mistakes some of it is down to ‘Jesus Christ, what have we done to deserve that?’
“If people were cutting us open and we were winning anyway then I would be saying to Marcus [Bignot] ‘We are in big trouble here, at some point we are going to crash and burn.’
“Football is not as easy as this but it indicates that you should do really well.”