AN “accumulation of errors” from Chelmsford City saw the Clarets fall victim to an embarrassing 4-0 defeat at league leaders Boreham Wood.

An own goal from goalkeeper Nicky Eyre just before half time was followed up minutes after the interval by the City keeper seeing red for a foul on Matty Whichelow resulting in a penalty. 

Sub goalkeeper, Niklas Freund, was sent the wrong way by Luke Garrard and was then guilty of an error of his own as he waited too long for the ball to enter his area allowing Lee Angol to nip in.  

And to rub salt into the wound, three minutes later City conceded a second penalty when Christian Smith handled inside the area with Garrard slotting home his second spot kick of the game. 

Following the defeat the Clarets boss, Mark Hawkes sent out a clear message to his players, describing the performance as “an accumulation of errors” before saying “it has got to stop.”

Hawkes added: “As a manager I trust the players that go on that park, but at the moment there are too many individual errors, week after week, and I’m going to have to start looking at the individuals that I put on that park.”

Hawkes was forced into making two changes to the side that won so impressively at Bromley, with Michael Cheek missing for personal reasons and Rob Girdlestone out through injury being replaced by Luke Callander and James Love respectively. 

Chelmsford City: Nicky Eyre, James Loves, Leon Redwood, Mark Hughes (C), Mark Haines, Yado Mambo, Lee Sawyer, Christian Smith (Harry Morgan 76), Luke Callander (Evans Kouassi 70), Joe Ward, Nicky Nicolau (Niklas Freund 51).

Chelmsford host Weston-super-Mare on Saturday, kick-off 3pm.