DAGENHAM and Redbridge boss John Still has told his players not to beat themselves up over the team’s recent slump.

The Daggers have slipped in their chase for a play-off place and now have much to do following a run of just two wins in 11 league games.

The team had established themselves as one of the league’s most free-scoring sides, but they have found the net just three times in their last seven games.

Their woes were compounded at the weekend by a 2-0 defeat at home to Morecambe, and while Still accepted there are plenty of wrongs to be righted, he was quick to point out that the team have ‘massively overachieved’ so far.

“Confidence is low at the moment but the lads we’ve got have been doing so well,” he said. “The only way to get out of that is to really work hard at what you’re good at, that’s what we’ve got to do. “What we’ve done here is massively overachieve and that puts the expectations levels up for everyone, including the players and when it doesn’t go for them they come down a long way. Well, they haven’t because the expectation level should never change.

“We’re just not doing very well at the moment, but before that we had a run where we were doing exceptionally well and we need to get back to that level.”

The Victoria Road outfit take on mid-table side Chesterfield on Saturday, knowing that a win would keep them in with a sniff of a top-seven finish.

The Daggers will welcome the trip north after a miserable run in front of their own fans of late. Four consecutive home defeats without a goal will have the team bus screeching up the M1 as fast as possible in search of another restorative victory at the Recreation Ground.