Coach Dave Powell on Westfield FC's 1-1 draw with Corinthian-Casuals on December 9, 2023
Westfield FC coach Dave Powell gives his thoughts on the club's 1-1 draw at Corinthian-Casuals on December 9, 2023 in the Pitching In Isthmian League South Central Division
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00:00 So Dave, it's been 24 hours since the result of the 1-1 draw against Creighton Casuals away.
00:06 Frustrating result, don't you think?
00:08 Yeah, yeah. First half not bad.
00:11 Similar to a lot of games this season, we probably should have come in 2 of 3 up.
00:18 Yeah, and then just second half was poor, very poor.
00:24 And once you, you know, talking about the second half, you know, first half we came out pretty dominant.
00:28 Second half we seemed like we kind of fell away a bit. What do you think the reason was that?
00:33 Well, we stopped... credit to them, I mean they worked really hard.
00:36 They were a step ahead of us all the time, second half, you know.
00:39 Everything, they were first to a lot of balls, a lot of second balls, first balls.
00:44 And we had a lack of intensity really, second half.
00:50 We stopped doing all the good things that we did in the first half,
00:53 where we were getting the ball into some wide areas, getting the ball into some spaces between their back four in the midfield
01:02 and getting full backs forward as well.
01:05 Yeah, we stopped doing all those things.
01:08 You've got to give credit to Creighton Casuals, some of that is obviously down to them.
01:14 They had a real good go second half and, you know, the goal we conceded was poor.
01:20 The whole thing was just poor, you know.
01:23 Can't dress it up any more than that really.
01:27 Do you think we were kind of left to rue, sort of the missed chances we had in the first half?
01:30 We had a few right towards the end of the first half, Danny Campion could have probably scored.
01:35 Do you think we kind of regretted not taking our chances when we had them?
01:38 Yeah, and the other one as well where Danny gets away down the left-hand side and cuts it back to Manu.
01:42 Manu has a shot, really good save by Dan Purdue in goal for them
01:47 and then cuts back to Jordan who has a touch and then Dan Purdue saves again brilliantly.
01:53 So, you know, that goes in, that's 2-0.
01:57 I think, you know, that's a really tough ask for them second half I think.
02:03 But, yeah, we didn't and ultimately we were left.
02:07 You know, at any level if you miss chances it normally comes back and bites you.
02:11 Brilliant. Well, cheers Dave, thanks for that.