He said on RTE's Monday Night Soccer
"We're shipping goals at the moment so predominantly that's the area I'm going to be looking at to start with.
"If we can keep a clean sheet the worse we're going to get is a draw. So that's where we'll go from and we'll worry about scoring goals once we stop conceding them."
Galway have only one point from 7 games and are already 4 points away from other relegation strugglers Cobh and UCD.