Coventry born and bred striker Gary McSheffrey has spoken about his desire to score all of the goals that are needed to win points and keep his beloved Sky Blues in the Championship.
To add to McSheffrey's frustration, he is not even a regular first choice on Andy Thorn's team sheets, partly because of injury and partly because of poor form.
Coventry City are rooted firmly at the bottom of the division and are beginning to be cut adrift from their fellow relegation candidates, but there are another 25 games left and 75 points to be won, so survival is still possible.
Despite McSheffrey wanting to score, he has only managed one goal so far this season and that is hurting the striker who was the leading scorer for City in three consecutive seasons in his first spell at the club.
He told the CT: “It’s hurting us all at the moment but it hurts me because I want to be the one scoring the goals to keep us in this league, 100 per cent, but it’s not working out that way right now.
“It would be nice to play 90 minutes and that’s my aim, to stay in the team and hopefully nick a goal and a win but it’s wishful thinking at the minute. We just need a little bit of luck to get a goal out of nothing and then the confidence changes. Confidence is everything in football.
“There have been a couple of occasions when just when it looks like we have got a bit of confidence we get knocked back again and we are not really responding well to those knock-backs at the minute.
“We get the odd goal now and again and we’re not really keeping a clean sheet so we need to have to score two or three to win a game at the minute, so it is far from an ideal situation.
“We have just got to keep working hard and hopefully it will turn. We have got to try to pick ourselves up and apply ourselves in the right way to get out of this together.”
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