Burton boss Paul Peschisolido has blamed himself for their recent dip in form, and will go back to basics for the game at Edgar Street.
The Brewers had earned 13 points from 15 before suffering back to back defeats against Morecambe and Crewe, and Peschisolido believes that he has overloaded his team with 'too much information', telling the Derby Telegraph he had overcomplicated his instructions to the team during their loss at Morecambe:
"We found ourselves 2-1 up, which we shouldn't have been, and I was hoping we'd take the initiative in the second half and play on that but it wasn't meant to be. But blame me – maybe I gave them too much to take in about being more solid and not flying forward.
"We wanted that but we don't want it to mean the midfield sitting five yards in front of the back four and letting their mdfield come at us in the gaps."
Peschisolido also expressed his frustration at a midweek reserves loss to Shrewsbury: "After we'd lost two on the bounce, one or two should have been busting to show me I should pick them for Hereford but, really, only Jimmy Phillips came out of a flat performance with much credit."
Meanwhile defender Paul Boertien has told the Burton Mail that they can still make the play-offs despite the two losses: "We've got two more tough games but there’s no point sulking about it and getting down about it, we've got to go and beat Hereford on Saturday.
Your confidence is never good when you lose games but I think the lads' confidence is high because we've been winning games. Obviously it does take a knock when you lose but we've just got to put that behind us."