Martin Needs To Step Up - Mowbray

Last updated : 28 April 2015 By Covsupport News Service

Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that Arron Martin needs to step up to the plate in Sunday's game at Crawley.

Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner about Martin who will replace the injured Matt Pennington: "Aaron understands he has to step up and do a job and I have every faith in him that he will, and the positive thing for him is he’s coming in on the right-hand side which is his more natural side.

“It’s about getting the basics right and then your game falls into place. Aaron has to become more dominant aerially. I built a career for 20-odd years on winning headers and being dominant. I used to head everything back and then the perception is you are pretty good at what you do.

“The rest becomes easy. If someone moves the ball back you pass it to your full-back or play it into the striker. No-one expects more of you as a centre-half – win your headers, be dominant, physical and powerful.

“They have to do their job, keep the ball out of the net. Pass it as simple as you can, pass it to your midfield player or full-back. Go back to your goalie if you have to but it’s not a difficult job.

“Just be a man and Aaron has to step up and do it and he’s got the message loud and clear.

“He found himself out of the team because Reda can do those basics and Pennington had shown a real level of consistency so Aaron was the one who came out. Now he’s got another opportunity. He’ll be a little bit disappointed at being left out but he has to come back and show us how much it means to him."

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