AFC Fylde look for a return to winning ways this weekend.

Craig Mahon is confident his AFC Fylde players will respond in the right manner when they visit Boston United on Saturday.

The Coasters make the journey, looking to bounce back from last Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat against Altrincham.

Fylde lost for only the second time in their first nine National League matches, leaving them fourth in the early table.

All three goals came in a five-minute spell during the first half, with Kane Hemmings and Matty Kosylo netting for the visitors either side of Tom Whelan putting the Coasters on level terms.

Speaking after last Saturday’s game, Fylde’s head coach told club media: “The last two games, Yeovil and Harrogate away, have probably taken a little bit of toll on the lads.

“It’s a perfect week for us to look after the lads, do the right things, get their bodies right and we can build on this.

“I don’t think there’s many games this year or last year that I felt we were just off it, but we’re going to go again.

“We know what we’re good at, we know what type of football we’re going to play. Some days it’ll work and some days it won’t.

“The lads are gutted, which is good. It shows me they care, I want them to care about losing football games because you’ve got to learn.

“Everybody will learn from this game, including myself and the staff. We’ve got to look at substitutions, formations - did we pick the right team, were people leggy before the game?

“There’s loads of things for us to learn but we’re nine games in. Let’s just keep smiling, we’re up where we want to be and we’re going to plan to stay there.”

Boston, for their part, climbed to 15th position after picking up their third win of the campaign with a 3-1 victory at Forest Green Rovers last weekend.

Mahon added: “Boston had a really good win so we’ve got to respect, we’ve got to understand, that they’re going to be a tough outfit.

“We’ve got a week of planning for that so that’ll be great for myself and the staff but, this group, we always bounce back and we always bounce back quite quickly.

“We’re going to go down there with a good mindset, understand that Boston are a good team, but we’re going to go down there and try to win a game of football.”