Heanor Town boss says they only have themselves to blame for Teversal defeat

Teversal sealed victory in stoppage time to leave Heanor frustrated.

The Town chief was left disappointed by his side’s wasteful finishing and slack defending as they slumped to defeat.

Lee Naughton hit a stoppage time winner for The Tevie boys in a match which saw Heanor defender Max Thornberry play in goal for the last 70 minutes following an injury to Joe McCormack.

“I'm very disappointed with the defeat,” Clarence said. “If you don't take your chances and give them goals then you will lose football matches.

“It is our doing. We had numerous chances to put the ball in the box and to score goals which we haven't taken.

“They have had three chances, which we gave them, and they scored three.

“We still should have won that game, we made three mistakes and it cost us. We could have scored 13 goals and there lies the problem.”

And Clarence was again left counting the cost of bad luck after McCormark was subbed on 21 minutes after injuring his finger.

“We will need a goalkeeper for the next match,” he said. “We had one in pre-season and he left after five games. We get one more, he gets injured, gets a chance and is gone, then we get another and he breaks his finger.

“We are having extreme luck, but I'm not going to harp on about bad luck, you make your own luck.

“Luck doesn't score goals, we have lost because we can't defend or score, if you can't defend of score you won't win football matches.”Heanor had the first chance in the third minute when Thornberry headed wide from a corner.A minute later Tevie took the lead following a good finish by Tom Widdowson, before Widdowson headed over on 13 minutes.Heanor replace goalkeeper McCormack on 21 minutes, with Thornberry pulling on the keeper’s shirt.Heanor had their best chance of the half two minutes into injury time when Lewis Weaver shot just over the bar.Tom Batterham’s shot deflected off Matthew Brian and into the net on 73 minutes to draw Heanor level.

Naughton restored the Tevie lead on 78 minutes, before Joe Nice levelled again with a curling effort.But Teversal snatched a late winner when Naughton scored from close range.