MANAGER Carl Heeley believes Worcester City are approaching the form that saw them go 14 games unbeaten at the end of 2014.

City managed just one victory in January but, following the 2-0 triumph over Stockport County, have now won back-to-back Conference North matches this month to move up to 10th in the table.

It was also Worcester’s 11th clean sheet in the league this season and, along with second-placed Fylde, have conceded the fewest number of goals.

Heeley said: “A combination of exiting the FA Cup and losing some of our better performing players at that time was bound to have an effect.

“But I knew the character would eventually come back and we’d start looking like the team we did prior to the start of the new year.

“I was really pleased on Saturday, I thought we played well and it’s another clean sheet. That’s something that we’re proud of and we want the best defensive record in the league at the end of the season.

“We know goals have been hard to come by and it probably showed on Saturday at times because it should have been far more convincing and that is our Achilles heel.

“But when you’re keeping clean sheets you only need to score one to win so as long as you win the game that’s all that matters.

“A lot of hard work and organisation goes into it and it becomes a belief when you’ve kept a number of clean sheets, you expect to do it each week.

“If you’re shipping cheap goals, psychologically you’re in a weak state of mind. But keeping clean sheets does become a habit.”

Mike Symons and Sean Geddes got the goals as City stepped up their quest to reach the play-offs.

The City boss added: “We got in behind their full-backs with the two wingers with a lot pace to cause them problems but the final ball all too often wasn’t quite there.”