MANAGER Carl Heeley believes Worcester City have “turned a corner” at the Victoria Ground after securing back-to-back bumper home wins.

With one victory in their opening eight games in front of their supporters, City seemed to be struggling to adapt to life at their new base in Bromsgrove.

However, Worcester now appear to have found their feet as they thumped Stalybridge Celtic 4-0 before beating 10-man Altrincham 3-0 on Saturday.

“Hopefully we have turned a corner with two emphatic wins here,” said Heeley, whose side made the move in the summer after ending their three-year stay at Kidderminster Harriers’ Aggborough.

“We have not got our own ground that players have been used to playing at for a number of seasons which is an extra challenge for us and I think that is something which is overlooked.

“But we are ticking along nicely now.”

Worcester’s only other home success in Vanarama National League North came in a 5-3 victory over Alfreton Town last month.

“We have scored five goals against Alfreton, four against Stalybridge and three against Altrincham - that’s not a bad return in three home games,” Heeley continued.

“But we have been on the end of odd-goal defeats as well which have predominantly come from our own mistakes.

“It has always been close, but hopefully we can continue with what we have done in the last two home games and build on that because it’s all about belief and confidence.”

Striker Lee Hughes opened the scoring on eight minutes after heading in Cieron Keane’s pin-point cross.

Keane scored City’s second with a thumping 25-yard strike on the half hour mark before Ebby Nelson-Addy netted from close range with 15 minutes to go.

But Heeley admitted the “game changer” was when Altrincham skipper Alan Goodall saw red on 10 minutes after bringing down Hughes who was sent clean through by Keane.

“I thought Altrincham started the game quite well,” Heeley said.

“But our first goal came from us being on the front foot as we nicked the ball in a good area and Cieron, who has got a great left peg, then put a great ball into the box and it was one of the easier ones Hughesy will get.

“When the Altrincham defender (Goodall) got sent off it really put us in the driving seat and it was then a case of not getting complacent.”

Heeley said he was also pleased with his players’ “emphatic response” after last weekend’s 5-1 defeat at high-flying Darlington 1883.

“Last week’s game was not worth getting too despondent about, so we moved on and I could not have asked for anymore,” said Heeley, who made just one change from the side that lined up against Darlington, with Junior English replacing Joe Fitzpatrick.

“We have been striving for that consistency (in team selection) and a formation that suits us and the lads are getting used to each other.

“It would have been very easy to go and make four or five changes, but I thought that would have been rash.

“I put last week down to a one-off and decided to give a majority of the lads another go.”