Yeovil returned to winning ways this afternoon with a 2-0 win on the road at Woking. A thronker from Brett McGavin and a tap in from Finn Cousin-Dawson was enough against the ten-man Cardinals.
Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Mark Stillman after the match, Mark Cooper said his side needed the win.
“[I’m] Delighted with the result, not so much the performance, but I understand, because we’re a bit edgy. We lost three games in a week and put ourselves under a bit of pressure. And it was just about getting a win to get us off and running again, to restore a bit of confidence.
“We were competent today. We weren’t overly effective in the last third, but we had good chances as well to win the game. But, today was just about three points. There’s loads of things we did wrong, but we had a right go. We were really organised and never really looked in danger of losing the game.
“I thought we could have been quicker with the ball, but listen, it’s tough to play against 10 men. It’s just about winning the game and we managed to do that.”
Brett McGavin’s volley got the Glovers off the mark after Jack Stretton received a red card for an elbow on Cousin-Dawson and Cooper felt his team needed some magic: “We needed a bit of magic. Once they went to 10 men, they get bodies back and we needed just a bit of magic to get us going. Brett supplied us with that. He’s scored some cracking goals this year, and that was another.”
Matt Worthington returned off the bench after picking up an injury at Tamworth and Cooper was happy to see some squad depth return.
“Because of last week, it’s been a little bit frustrating for everyone with the sendings off, and it’s really rocked to us in terms of not being able to get balanced team out. So hopefully that gives us a bit of a G up now. We’re close to getting Wannell back, Dom back, Worthy, back on the pitch today. So we’re close to getting a bit of depth back to the squad.”
Ed James was left out of the side after his debut on Wednesday, but the manager confirmed he’d be in contention for the FA Trophy clash with W*ymouth.