PHIL Brown praised the ‘clean sheet mentality’ of his side after Kidderminster Harriers battled to a hard-fought 1-0 win at Peterborough Sports.
Amari Morgan-Smith scored the game’s only goal on 47 minutes at Lincoln Road as Harriers stretched their unbeaten run to three matches.
The result means Kidderminster sit eighth in the National League North, two points outside of the play-off places, and Brown heaped praise on his defence for recording a third successive clean sheet.
Brown said: “It was a hard-earned win down to the fact we made a couple of silly decisions which allowed them to get a foothold in the game, I never thought it was going to be easy.
“I asked the players to base the whole performance on hitting the target, I don’t think we’ve seen an opposition player drop a clanger [this season] for us to score a goal.
“We’ve got to score brilliant goals and we are doing that because we’ve got some good players but we made hard work of it.
“I’ve got to take my hat off to the back three or five for the clean sheet mentality of the group this week.
“I know we’re going to create chances at this level, then we’ve just got to grow in confidence and hopefully when the chances keep coming and we start winning games on a regular basis the belief comes.
“If the belief comes early in this season, we’ve still got a chance, I’ve never lost any hope or any faith in this group, we’re grinding out results, I’m proud of them.”
Peterborough had player-manager and former Harriers striker Michael Gash sent off in first-half injury time for something he said to the referee.
And Harriers broke the deadlock just two minutes after the break when Morgan-Smith forced the ball home from close range after good work from Reece Devine down the left.
Kidderminster are next in action against Buxton on Saturday, November 2 with kick-off at 3pm at Aggborough.
