MARK Cooper has sought to correct the mistakes of Tuesday night’s draw with Oldham as Swindon Town welcome Sheffield United to the County Ground tomorrow.

Against Oldham, Town’s play lacked the quality of some of their previous performances this season and they conceded a late goal to deny themselves all three points.

Cooper and his staff have watched that game back numerous times in a bid identify the reasons why Oldham were able to negate Town’s passing game with such success.

On review, Cooper thought his side were too cautious in their approach and got embroiled in Oldham’s game rather than focusing on their own.

“We’ll try and put in place (in training) today (Thursday) and tomorrow what we think went wrong - which was we got involved in a fight,” Cooper said.

“We maybe our lost our nerve a little bit. When you try and play football from the back you have to take risks, in terms of you might give the ball away now and again, but we didn’t take enough risks the other night.

“We have to get back to that in terms of making sure we play our game and not get dragged into somebody else’s game.

“I think they (the players) know there’s no recrimination if they do take that risk and it doesn’t come off, because we’re asking them to take the risk. I’d rather they take that risk trying to play how we play than whacking the ball down the pitch.”

The Blades come into tomorrow’s fixture with doubts over three of their most dangerous players. This season’s top scorer Jose Baxter has a hamstring injury, their standout man against Town last season, Jamie Murphy, has a dead leg and the tricky Jamal Campbell-Ryce is carrying a calf problem.

None of those three played a part as United scored three goals in six minutes to win from 2-0 down against Colchester on Tuesday night.

The resolve and quality shown in that victory means Cooper is under no illusions that those absences make tomorrow’s clash any easier.

“I think you read that so and so is not playing, (but) you have to concentrate on your own team. Whatever team they put out will be a good one and they’ll work really hard. So we don’t get taken in by that,” he added.

“I think if you look at their form since Nigel Clough’s been there it would be promotion form. So it’s going to be a real tough game for us.

“They’ll come and ask questions of us, they’ll press the ball and try and make it an entertaining game I’m sure.”