“When we got it to 3-3, I thought if anyone’s going to go and win it, I thought it could be us. Obviously, it wasn’t to be. We concede the probably, a fairly sloppy goal, to make it go 4-3. But no, we’re proud of the boys, to be fair. Against a team in the league above, like you said, I thought we’d done well.
“We’d done the analysis of them, throughout the week. We can see they had really good rotations. They were really patient with the ball. A bit like Boreham Wood, similar style. Really patient with the ball. They move you about, they like to create gaps. But we just thought like if we had a good, compact shape, pressed at the right moments, stayed narrow, made it hard to play through that, we’d always give ourselves a chance. And like you saw in the last 20 minutes, that’s exactly what we did. We gave ourselves a chance, and, we were unlucky in the end not to at least take it to extra time.”
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