Yeovil Town match winner, Harvey Greenslade has said that despite Ebbsfleet fighting back into Tuesday’s game, he and the rest of the players had no doubt they would go on to win the game.
The former Bristol Rovers man was introduced into the game for Aaron Jarvis seconds after Ebbsfleet had equalised and would go on to score the winner after good build up play from Frank Nouble.
Speaking to the BBC after the game, the front man said: “It’s a really good feeling, when I came on, there was only one thing I wanted to do – needed to do – I had to come on and work my socks off, and thankfully I got the goal.”
Pre-match there was some doubt that Greenslade would even be involved, saying he’d taken a fitness test to make the bench.
“I was a bit of a doubt for the game today, I came in early to do a bit of a test, I told the coaches ‘I’m ready, I’m ready to play’. I’m delighted to come on and get the goal.”
Of the goal itself, it was Greenslade who won the ball back for the Glovers before Frank Nouble had not one – but two – bites of the cherry in the penalty area. Mark Cousins in the ‘Fleet goal pulled off brilliant back-to-back saves, before the ball fell kindly to Greenslade to sweep home.
“I saw us on the counter, and thought ‘I better get up there and do my job’ and luckily the ball came to me and there was only one thing that was going to happen.”
“there was not a doubt for us players that we weren’t going to win that game”
A dominant first half display from Yeovil was nearly all undone in five crazy second half minutes. Greenslade admitted things were tough for a while, but that he had little doubt the Glovers would see the game home.
“The first half, I thought we were really good, some things to work on, but some really good football played, the lads did really well first half.
“It’s always hard when you concede a goal when you’re 2-0 up, the momentum always goes to them and the game changes. I thought we still did well, we showed a lot of character towards the end. The whole team played their part, there was not a doubt for us players that we weren’t going to win that game. Yeah, ok, the two goals went in, but objective was still the same and get three points.
“The main message was to stay calm, we’ve been here before, especially the lads who were here last year that went on to win the league. I don’t think they know how to crumble, coming into it [the group] we’ve got a good team and structure to work on. The lads did really well to bounce back.”
Looking forward, Greenslade said he has high ambitions for the group… although he did admit the coach journey to Gateshead might not be fun on Friday.
“Coming back [to the National League] there’s only one thing I want to do, that’s get promoted, like the lads did last year, there’s no reason why we can’t.”