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Assistant manager Gary Richards was pleased with the way Haverfordwest County adapted to the tricky conditions before finding a stoppage-time winner to earn a 1-0 victory away at Briton Ferry Llansawel on Bank Holiday Monday.
On a red-hot afternoon in Neath Port Talbot, both teams had to adopt a more direct approach on a hard pitch which made getting the ball down very challenging.
With clear-cut chances few and far between for both teams, the game appeared to be heading for a stalemate before Alaric Jones’ header with 30 seconds of added time remaining snatched victory for the Bluebirds to send the sizeable away support home happy.
Here’s what the assistant manager had to say in full after the game:
On the result
It’s a really nice feeling, especially after the way the first two games have gone, playing so well in the first two games, not getting what we deserve. So to come away with a late winner has a good feeling about it.
On how the game panned out
I think the conditions made that happen. We want to play, get the ball down, but you could only do that today in little spurs. Today it was about scrapping hard, defending our box as often as we could, and luckily we’ve pinched something at the end.
DRAMA HWYR! Hwlffordd yn cipio’r triphwynt yn y funud olaf! 😲
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On getting the goal
Being picky, we thought that we’d turned down a few opportunities again, put balls into the box and turned down a couple of opportunities to shoot. So it just shows, you keep on asking questions and perhaps something will fall like it did, so we’re really pleased at at the moment.
I think the way the game went, if we’d come away with a nil-nil we would have probably been happy, so to win 1-0 and get three points is obviously very pleasing.
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