TOMMY Smith insists Colchester United can get their season back on track with a positive result at Stevenage – and end their winless run.

The U’s head to the Lamex Stadium on the hunt for a much-needed victory, following a seven-game winless streak.

Colchester have slipped to 15th spot in League Two and are now seven points adrift of the play-off places, following their 3-0 defeat at Morecambe.

But defender Smith is adamant that a victory at Stevenage can kick-start their campaign.

“All it takes is that one result to generate some momentum and we’ll keep working as hard as we possibly can to get that," said Smith.

“Stevenage are fighting for their lives near the bottom and we know that it’s not going to be an easy game.

“But we feel like if we can match their work ethic and desire, we have the quality to see them off.

“It gives us a chance to put it right.

“We just want these games to come thick and fast, turn that corner, put a win on the board and climb back up the league.

“There’s a long way to go yet – we’re only halfway through the season and there’s a lot of football to be played and a lot of points to be won.

“I don’t think confidence is an issue - we had two fairly good results against teams who are high up in the league, leading up to the Morecambe game.

“You’ve just got to keep going.

“We need a bit of luck to go our way but you also work for your luck and you don’t get anything given to you in football.

“I know that’s a cliché but it’s true – we have to work as hard as we can to keep creating those chances and eventually, they will fall for us and we’ll score the goals that will get us that win.

“It didn’t happen for us but the only thing we can do is carry on working as hard as we possibly can to turn this little blip around and get back to winning games."

Colchester were the better side in the first half at Morecambe, with both Smith and Callum Harriott hitting the woodwork.

But they trailed to Adam Phillips’ goal scored just before half-time and further strikes from Toumani Diagouraga and John O’Sullivan wrapped up the Shrimps’ win.

“We felt like we played well in the first half and that we were the better side,” added New Zealand international Smith.

“We had some chances that we perhaps should have taken and we hit the post a couple of times.

“We should have been a couple of goals to the good really.

“But we all take responsibility and we all know that we should be putting games to bed like that when we are on top, especially away from home.

“When you’re on top, you need to capitalise on that.

“There was a lapse in concentration bang on half-time that’s meant we’ve gone in 1-0 down.

“You’re always fighting an uphill battle once that happens, away from home.

“We were very disappointed before half-time, because we’d felt that we’d played well and had been the better side.

“I felt like we actually started the second half quite well and then obviously, the second goal was a bit of a killer blow, the sending off happened and that sort of finishes off the game for us, which was really disappointing.”