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Saturday, November 05, 2022

I Thought We Could Have Got Something Out Of The Game Said Gowling


Speaking to the local media after last night's FA Cup tie at Edgar Street, Hereford manager Josh Gowling felt his side could have done better.

"Really disappointed," said Gowling.

"I thought we could have got something out of the game, we should have got something out of the game apart from the two set pieces.

"Goals change games and the quality they've got from deliveries as well obviously change changes.

"I thought first half we were excellent, we worked hard, but then one mistake cost you a goal and that's the levels.

"They play 4-4-2 but it's not really. Their wide players roll in, they overload midfield areas to get it wide.

"We just wanted to compact them in as much as possible and force them wide then we could cut off some of the passing lanes. I thought we did that well the majority of the game.

"They didn't have many shots for our keeper to save.

"Two set-pieces (corners), I don't think we conceded directly from a set play all season so to here and be done by that is disappointing."

Gowling felt Hereford gave the ball away too easily.

"We've done what we've probably done at the start of the season which was implode a little bit. Get the ball in the middle of the park and give it away when we need to move the ball quickly.

"You are playing against a League One side and you give the ball away and they break they are going to score and that's what they did.

"That's disappointing because I think we've been securing the ball better lately and then to conced a goal with a turn over like that was disappointing.

"We were in the acsendancy, they looked nervous, we looked like we were on top, we looked like we were going to go on and win the game and then they give them a leg, you give them a lift and then you could see their performance raised after that.

"They are League One players, three leagues above us so the quality is vastly different.

"If you look at that game compared with the Fylde game, they were similar in terms of patterns, their ball speed is just that much quicker and it sometimes hard to shift across the pitch.

"We got Kettering away on Tuesday night so learn from this, learn you've got to get in position early, you don't have a minute.

"Look at their first goal, we've lost it across the pitch when it's gone, when the cross has come in, just little things like that at our level it probably goes out for a goal kick or he heads it and it goes to into the keeper.

"At their level he nods it down and they score so it's understanding those little finer details to get to the next level and we will do that."