Harrow Borough boss Steve Baker hopes an enforced pause in the season will prove beneficial as the club's injury list mounts.

The Reds were beaten 1-0 at Bognor Regis Town on Saturday – their first away Isthmian Premier Division loss and the first time this season they have suffered consecutive defeats.

With forward Will Turl (knee) joining goalkeeper Nick Jupp in missing the rest of the campaign and "five or six" others carrying knocks, Baker believes the fact Harrow don't have a fixture this weekend could prove a blessing in disguise.

He said: "When you win you want another game but when you've lost you want it even more.

"But we've got a lot of injuries so it might not be the end of the world.

"The players will train extremely hard on Thursday and Saturday and we will spend as much time as we can on the things that haven't gone right right in the last couple of games. Which, to be fair, isn't too many things."

Bognor Regis' winner came from a set piece, Sami El-Abd the scorer, and it was the manner of the goal which frustrated Baker most.

He said: "I wasn't very happy – not necessarily with the performance – set pieces were my main problem. On Saturday the players did things differently to what I ask."