CITY should have “five or six” league wins on the board so far, claims Derek Adams.

His side are looking to end a seven-game winless streak in all competitions when Rochdale come to Valley Parade on Saturday.

The Bantams last claimed victory at Mansfield on August 21 and have taken only two points from five attempts in League Two since.

That has seen them drop from second to 12th in the table with 12 points from their opening nine games.

But Adams, who yesterday allowed Ollie Crankshaw to join Stockport for an undisclosed fee, remains convinced that fortunes will quickly turn.

He said: “We should have won the Walsall game and we created enough opportunities against Barrow and Salford.

“We didn’t play well enough Saturday. But if we had won a few of those other games, then we would be talking in a different way.

“The performances in those three games were very good – on Saturday it wasn’t.

“(Performances) have only levelled out because we haven’t taken our opportunities. If we had done that, we’d have won five or six games this season.

“That’s the only reason we haven’t got that. I can only talk about the facts and they are that we’ve had good opportunities in those games.”

Adams blasted his side’s “very poor” display against Crawley – which he described as their worst of the season.

“There’s nothing we can do about Saturday,” he said. “It’s gone now and we focus on our next game at home to Rochdale.

“We didn’t create many opportunities to score a goal. We had a lot of possession but didn’t open up Crawley as we should have done.

“We only had two or three chances, that was all, and in previous weeks we’ve had a lot more than that.

“Sometimes it happens like that but we certainly had enough players on the pitch that were capable of opening up their defence and creating things. But unfortunately, we didn’t do that.”