AFC Fylde look to be better at the back
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Boxing Day’s 3-1 defeat against Rochdale at Mill Farm took the Coasters to 50 goals conceded in 24 National League matches.
It is the division’s second-worst goals against tally, with only bottom club Ebbsfleet United (58) having shipped more this season.
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Hide AdDale’s Kairo Mitchell inspired their win last week, scoring twice after Gavin Massey had given Fylde an early lead.


That made it five goals in two matches against the Coasters for Mitchell this season, having scored a hat-trick in October’s FA Cup clash.
While acknowledging Mitchell’s abilities, Phillips said Fylde’s defending this season has made it easy for their opposition.
He told the club’s media team: “He’s a top striker, every team we come up against seems to have one.
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Hide Ad“You give players of that calibre time and space, they’ll punish you, and that’s what’s happened – just like it did at Solihull (a 4-1 defeat).
“I wouldn’t say we gift goals but we make it easy, we don’t make it hard enough for the opposition to carve us open and score goals.
“That’s something I’m well aware of, we’re trying really hard in the background to address it so something has to give and, at the minute, we’re all hurting again because we’ve lost.
“At the minute, we’re in that mentality we can’t get out of but I can never fault the players, they kept going right until the very end.
“That’s all we can do, so we dust ourselves down, we come back in and we get ready to go again for the Halifax game.”