AFC Telford United’s assistant manager Larry Chambers is confident the Bucks’ misfiring strikers will come good, insisting: “We just need a bit of luck.”

Saturday’s 3-0 loss at Southport was the Bucks’ third Blue Square North defeat in a row without finding the net – despite manager Rob Smith switching to a 4-3-3 formation in a bid to cure their shooting sickness.

But Chambers is adamant that Andy Brown, who missed a penalty on Saturday, Danny Carey-Bertam and Steve Thompson will find their shooting boots.

He said: “Sooner or later they’ll score and I hope that when they do they go on a run because with players like that it’s about confidence.

“We put crosses in and none of them dropped for us. We’ve had shots on goal and they bounce off people and they never bounced to us – we just need a bit of luck.

“When you’ve got a team who are not playing with any particular confidence and things aren’t going your way, and when you work hard like we did and when chances come your way, you’ve got to take them.”

Chambers added the decision to go with a front three was intended to try and give the Bucks more of a cutting edge.

He said: “We thought Danny and Browny (Andy Brown) could occupy the two centre halves and we thought if Steve Thompson could get in areas on the ball he could make things happen, and it worked fine – he won the penalty and he got on the ball.”

Meanwhile new signing Aaron Brown missed the game after he picked up a hamstring strain while training with League Two side Accrington Stanley.

“The intention is that Aaron would have played but because he’s with Accrington again on Monday and they’ve got a reserve game this week he didn’t want to risk it,” said Chambers.