DAVID WEBB has admitted that his York City players are feeling ‘deflated’ after suffering a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Southend United.

York made the long trip down to Essex but left empty-handed, after a brace from Jack Bridge guided Southend to a comfortable victory.

It means that City have now lost three consecutive matches in the Vanarama National League, and find themselves in 17th position, just four points adrift of the relegation zone.

But with a tough run of fixtures approaching in very short succession, Webb has confessed that his players are feeling deflated.

“I think they’re deflated.” Webb admitted.

“They felt like that if we took our chances then it could have been a different game.

“That was the feel from in there, we couldn’t ask much more from them from what they’ve given us. We just didn’t take our chances and ultimately we got punished.

“Before we came in I don’t they had won in nine or ten.

“We haven’t done enough in that, we’ve only won a few games, so I think the situation was there before we got here.

“It’s up to us now that we’ve been put in charge of the club to get ourselves out of it. It’s on us, so we’ve got to go again and work hard on Tuesday.

“We’re confident because in terms of the performance we worked hard. Ultimately we didn’t score goals.

“But the effort was there, the work rate was there, we just didn’t finish our chances and we got punished.

“We’ve got a lot of injuries at the minute but obviously there are no excuses for that.

“That was our back four and we didn’t have anybody else, then we had a few that came in late this week and trained on Thursday or Friday and didn’t get a full week.

“Shaq [Forde] has had a cold all week so he’s been suffering, so we saved him right to the last minute when we made our selection because if he is fully fit then we need him involved in the game.

“But obviously we have got lots of games coming up and when he’s hardly trained this week we cannot risk just throwing him on.

“[Michael Duckworth] would have been available but yesterday he felt his groin. He felt it a little bit on Thursday so we saw how it was on Friday and he tweaked it again, so he couldn’t be involved in the squad.”

A casualty for City was the injury to winger Nathan Thomas, who was substituted in the 34th minute due to a hamstring injury.

“We’ve got to assess that.” Webb confirmed.

“We do have some attacking options, but we was bare boned a bit today.”

There’s a quick turnaround for York however, with Webb’s side back in action on Tuesday night, as Solihull Moors made the journey to the LNER Community Stadium (7.45pm).

“We’re at home, in front of our own fans, and we’ve got to make sure we’ve got our game heads on to go again and try to win the game.

“But there’s no hiding place now and we’ve got to win.”