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Thursday, December 14, 2017

It's Been A Fantastic Run But It's Come To An End Said Beadle



Hereford manager Peter Beadle spoke to several media outlets after this evening's FA Cup replay at Edgar Street.

Here's what he told BN amidst others.

"Disappointed of course because we've given away two goals from set pieces," said Beadle.

"It's never good when you give away goals from set pieces.

"The same man got on the end of two decent corners.

"But I'm immensly proud of what the players have done, second half I thought we had the lion's share of the play.

"I think if you look at the stats it wasn't a game full of chances, I think it was a game that ebbed and flowed in between the two boxes with no real final third, cutting edge if you like, from either team.

"I don't think Horsell had a save to make bar the one that clipped off the bar at the very end when we were chasing the game other than the two set pieces and their keeper much the same.

"Second half I thought we had the lion's share of possession but couldn't quite unlock them in the final third.

"Fleetwood are big strong boys and normally we are a bit more fluent but you have to remember we were playing against a League One side who are 80 odd places above us and they train every day. 

"At times you could see that as they were a little bit sharper to the ball at times, a little bit quicker to react to the second balls.

"But outside of that there was lots of the game, second half especially, where we probably matched them in lots of areas of the pitch.

"So I'm hugely proud of the players and what they've achieved tonight in this cup run and fairly pleased with the performance.

"We've matched a fairly decent outfit tonight."

Did you change things at half-time?

"I think the big thing was for the players I certainly felt first half that although they had shown great effort and great character, they were playing the occasion, not the game we play.

"So we just asked them look try to flaten out the midfield three instead of playing a bit of a triangle three so we got a bit closer to them. As we got closer to them they had less room to play then we got a bit more time on the ball and we asked for a bit of bravery to play the way we want to play and they did it brilliantly second half.

"Calvin has had two efforts from the edge of the box where, I wouldn't say he's had a free sight of goal but a good sight of goal and he's not hit the target, he'll be disappointed with that and out side of that little things, John's nick around the corner for Keyon normally that works but they weren't on the same wavelength. It just didn't click tonight which is not like us going forward normally.

"You have to give credit to the opponents, we were playing a team 80 odd places above us, the players gave everything they had which they always do.

"It's been a fantastic run but it's come to an end and we move on. We've got a huge game on Sunday.

"We're not going to come up against opponents like that that often, Jack's disappointed because it was his man who scored both the goals, he's got to learn from that and take it on board. He's got to get a bit more physical with his man but I can't knock him for that, the man is a giant, six foot six, he's huge. So anyone who is going to go up against him is going to find it tough when he's got a run on you and things like that.

"Obviously in a cup game when you are 2-0 down and you ask them to go forward a bit quicker towards the end and still play a nice pass on the half way line so like I said we don't play teams like that every week.

"So we can take a fair bit out of it, the biggest thing for me is how much they've achieved and how well they did in the game.

"2-0 is not a disrespectul score, another day we get the blocks on the headers and it's 0-0 and we go into extra time.

"Neither attack line really unblocked the defences tonight."