JOINT-manager Carl Heeley has slammed his players for failing to hit the target as Worcester City were given a lesson in finishing by Tamworth.

Ross Dyer, Shane Clarke and Leon Mettam netted for the hosts as they ran out comfortable 3-0 winners in Vanarama National League North at The Lamb Ground.

However, Heeley believed City could have made it a closer contest if they had put away the opportunities they had created.

“It was a frustrating game because we had just as many chances as they did but we didn’t hit the target,” he said.

“It’s criminal that we haven’t made the goalkeeper work when we are getting opportunities from five or six yards out.

“When Tamworth had opportunities they took them, but when we had opportunities we didn’t and that was the difference.

“I can deal with a result if we had been beaten by a side that had played us off the park but that wasn’t the case as there was an equal number of chances.

"But they stuck theirs in the net and the scoreline is a reflection of that.”

Heeley, who was without Ashley Vincent after the midfielder called in sick, admitted he had no complaints over full-back Tyler Weir’s sending off.

But he felt City were harshly treated by referee Paul Graham as he believed Tamworth should have been reduced to 10 men as well.

“A substitute who came on for Tamworth deliberately kicked the ball 30 yards away and then fouled Nathan Vaughan,” Heeley said.

“If that was Worcester City, we would have been down to 10 men and we have been down to 10 men a number of times this season so it is frustrating.

“I don’t know what it is but we aren’t quite getting the rub of the green on the discipline side of things.”