Ricardo Moniz: 'We must train like every day is our last'

Notts County manager Ricardo Moniz has urged his team to train like ‘every day is their last’ in a bid to improve their form away from home in League Two.

The Magpies’ record at Meadow Lane is impressive enough, with six wins and a draw out of 10 games, but on the road it’s a completely different story, with just one win out of nine.

Moniz told local media on Thursday: "We didn't win too many home games last season, but this season we have tried to excite the crowd."

"We have only lost three at home in the league and okay against Northampton we didn't have enough."

"We played very well against Plymouth but lost, and against Mansfield we lost too which was deserved."

"The rest of the games we have dominated, but of course it is away from home we need to improve."

"Sometimes we have a lack of confidence to go and make the 2-0 like Thierry (Audel) at Cambridge for example."

"(Izale) McLeod can make the 2-0 at Wimbledon, but we are not confident enough in our own strength."

"But it is a process you cannot implement in three months. What we can do and what we must do is train every day like it is your last."

"And of course we confront each other on the inside, it is sharp and nobody must underestimate that. I must give confidence to people who don't have it."

"I see in a game who wants the ball and who doesn't, who wants to press his opponent for 90 minutes and who doesn't."

"A lot of time it is to do with a lack of physical power. In League Two, when a defender is under pressure I believe he will panic."

"We are okay at home, but for Cambridge for example, we refused to keep the ball. That is what we must improve."

Notts welcome Newport County to the Lane on Saturday.

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