COLCHESTER United's main objective in the remaining weeks of this season is to remain a League Two club.

But U's boss Ben Garner has set his side another specific target, as they bid to climb away from danger.

Colchester head to promotion-chasing Salford City this weekend knowing a win will go a long way to securing their EFL status.

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The U's travel to the Peninsula Stadium on the back of a 4-0 thrashing of Crewe Alexandra on Easter Monday, where they kept a second clean sheet in three matches.

Colchester have conceded only two goals in their last four matches and Garner has set his side a target number of clean sheets to chalk up, in their remaining five games of the campaign.

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Garner said: “We’ve set ourselves a target in terms of the number of clean sheets that we want to achieve.

“We’ve still got a way to go on that, in these remaining games but that for me is the platform for us, at the moment.

“We want to be a strong defensive group and have that shape and structure about us.

“We’ve done a lot of work on the training ground, in terms of how we’re going to be without the ball and we’re also starting to add things and layer things up with the ball now as well.

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“If you look at Monday, the work rate of everyone was top class; fighting for each other, second balls, really good tactically, in terms of our defensive shape.

“That will be important in the remaining games and we also want to do what we did on Monday which is be good with the ball, create opportunities and score goals."

Garner admits he could be forced to make changes to his starting line-up, for the Salford City game.

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Garner added: “We’ve got one illness who I doubt is going to travel – we’ll assess that (on Friday).

“We’ve also got one who probably won’t make the squad in terms of an injury but that will be assessed, in the morning."

Cole Skuse is pushing for a start after making his first appearance in two months as a substitute in Colchester's win over Crewe.

The U's will assess goalkeeper Kieran O'Hara in training tomorrow, after he was forced to miss the victory over Alex with a back injury.