DANNY Cowley insists securing back-to-back wins will be Colchester United's main motivation ahead of their important home clash with Forest Green Rovers - and not any revenge mission.

The U’s will aim to follow up their victory at Morecambe last weekend with another three-point haul against struggling Rovers, at the JobServe Community Stadium.

Colchester lie nine points above their opponents and seven above the League Two relegation zone, heading into the clash.

The U's were thrashed 5-0 at Forest Green last October but Cowley says the main aim will be to register a win for the second successive week, to back up last weekend’s away triumph.

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Cowley said: “I think it’s our biggest game of the season because it’s our next game of the season and that’s how we see it.

“The narrative all week has been winning on winning and I think that’s the challenge for this group.

“When you’re able to find a win away from home, it’s important you then back that up in your next game, that’s normally at home.

“For us, good players, good teams win and then have the desire and hunger to find a way of winning again and that’s our ambition.

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“We’re aware of that (5-0) result and it’s a game I looked back on before I took the role, trying to work out how or why - I think the team had suffered a couple of results like that.

“But for us, the moment we came in, it was to look forward with a clean slate and hit the reset button.

"For us never to look back, only to look forward and this is new beginnings - we’re a very different Colchester United team.”

Experienced boss Steve Cotterill will take charge of his second game as Forest Green boss at Colchester, having been appointed as Troy Deeney’s successor last month.

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Cowley added: “I’ve had a lot of good battles with Steve and he’s a really experienced coach. Tactically, he’s very intelligent and knows the levels extremely well.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for Steve. He’s a very intelligent coach and tactically very good and I have no doubt he’ll have been able to influence the group during this week.

"But for us, we put the energy and focus into ourselves.

“They’ve been incredibly aggressive in this window, trying to bring the right players in. You can understand that, in the situation that they’re in.

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“They’ve already had a really, really talented squad and I’m really surprised that they’re in the position that they’re in but sometimes this happens in football.

“For us really the focus this week has been on us because Steve (Cotterill) only came into the building last Thursday so he’s been in a week and it’s very difficult for us in the middle of the transfer window to predict exactly what they’re going to look like on Saturday.

“So rather than waste our energy, it’s for us to put our focus and intensity of our work into our performance and to keep trying to improve."