MANAGER Richard Dryden thought Worcester City’s game-plan was the reason for their success against St Albans.

Dryden chose to employ a 3-4-3 system in order to stifle the threat of a Clarence Park side that had gone eight games unbeaten until their defeat to Braintree at the end of November.

The City boss said: “They are a massive threat up front and we tried to stop their two full-backs getting decent balls into the strikers so that’s why we went three up front.

“The three front men stopped them doing that, the back three worked hard and Dave Bampton, Gary Walker and the two wing backs were magnificent. It was a good performance. I think we deserved the points.”

Dryden added: “It was a scrappy game and we went to make it scrappy. It wasn’t the most creative ball by a long way that got us our first goal but it was a good clearance by Gary Walker, who was probably our man-of-the-match again and, in Matt Dinsmore, it was a great finish from another young lad.

“I know we don’t score enough, everyone wants to see five or six goals every week and we haven’t scored many goals. But when we went 1-0 up I think we could have scored three or four.”

City are still 12th in Blue Square South but are now just five points adrift of the play-offs and have a five-point cushion between themselves and Braintree.

Craig Wilding, who netted the second goal, said: “It was important that we got a result because results haven’t been very good in the last month.

“When the results aren’t going for you then you have just got to dig in and work hard, which we’ve tried to do. A win now has given everybody a big lift going into Christmas.”