CAPTAIN Danny Jackman believes Worcester City were guilty of being lulled into “a false sense of security” following their resurgence in form this month.

After a winless August, Worcester put together a six-match unbeaten streak, including victories over Alfreton Town, Bradford Park Avenue, Brackley Town and AFC Telford United.

However, their run ended on Saturday when they lost 3-2 to Nuneaton Town at the Victoria Ground.

Jackman admitted the defeat was a “learning curve” for his side, who slipped three places to 15th in National League North.

“Obviously we have been playing well lately and in the last few weeks we have been consistently good,” said the 33-year-old skipper.

“But sometimes it takes a little slip up like what happened on Saturday to make you realise we are not quite as invincible as we think we are.

“That’s the thing about winning football games, it can put you into a false sense of security and perhaps we have fallen into that trap.”

Aaron Williams’ header on the hour was the difference between the sides after a first-half double from Elliott Whitehouse cancelled out goals from Cieron Keane and Lee Hughes.

But Jackman reckoned the loss was “self-inflicted” due to their “lackadaisical approach” to defending corners with Whitehouse and Williams both scoring with free headers.

“I think we have gone back to how we were defending set-pieces during the first month of the season,” he said.

“You can’t concede from two set-pieces like we did.

"We may have been mentally tired but we need to try to organise ourselves better and be harder to beat from corners.

“We reacted well after we went 2-1 down as we got the goal back and should have taken a lot of positives and got a lift from that.

“But we did not learn our lesson from the first half, so we were shooting ourselves in the foot again.

“We cannot afford to switch off from set-plays because that’s where the majority of the goals are going in from.

“If we can eradicate that lackadaisical approach, we have got goals in our team and are creating a load of chances, which is great.”

Despite the setback, the influential midfielder is hopeful City will return to winning ways when they host league rivals Brackley in the FA Cup third qualifying round on Saturday (3pm).

“Wins breed confidence and once we got that first win (against Alfreton) you could see all the youngsters got a lift,” he said.

“But you are going to lose games throughout the season and we only lost by one goal (on Saturday), so we weren’t a million miles off.

“Unfortunately, we have had a lot of games and I don’t think having the replay (against Telford) in midweek helped.

“Nuneaton looked a little brighter at times but we can now recover and get back to doing what we do best.”