Goalscorer and right-back Jake Dye reflects on the Premier Cup victory over Bury, his goal and the second half comeback.
DK: How can you describe that one?
JD: Where do you start? First half a below average performance from us, bloody took in what we did Saturday, so yeah 2-0 down, a lot to do. Boys showed character, albeit they went down to nine men, lost their goalkeeper. We started to create chances, started to move them about. To be fair to Bury they were resolute, done their job, but yeah we showed our quality in the end, which is promising.
DK: And another goal for you tonight!
JD: Yeah, I don't know, I don't want to use them up already, but went and attacked the ball, come off my head, actually kept my eyes open this time which is always good, but yeah really chuffed with it!
DK: Must've meant a lot to you lads to have dug deep and came from 2 down to win?
JD: Yeah, of course, like you say, showed good character, we always knew what Bury was going to do. Especially when they went down to ten men, and then nine men, and being 2-0 ahead we had to pick them off. Our quality showed through, there's still little bits which obviously we're going to work on in training. Need to polish off for Saturday, obviously cut out mistakes, that's the main thing. Tom said it before, we're really, really good before the halfway line, getting to the halfway line, getting to our attacking third and we sorted off played a bit off the cuff and yeah it's things we're going to try and work on for Saturday.
DK: Yeah, it's that resilience to bounce back from Saturday to then keep the confidence up and fire those goals in.
JD: Yeah, definitely, obviously first game of the season always disappointing and it's a one off game, then to find ourselves 2-0 down we sort of thought, 'what we doing,' but like I say we stuck together, started passing it, obviously pitch is really nice and we put the chances away when we could.
DK: Do you think the red cards changed the game?
JD: Yeah, in terms of finding little spaces, little pockets always helps us, but they had the same game plan when they had 11 men let alone 9 men, so we just had to show our quality, move them about and choose the right pass at the right time. We still missed a few, but to score 4 goals in the end is pretty promising!
DK: It's the perfect block to move forward with with in terms of confidence and all round.
JD: Yeah I'd say so to score four goals in the second half, just got to take that performance to Saturday. It's another win under our belt, obviously want to win the cup fourth time in the row, but like you say, take it into Saturday. Hopefully we can play our game and just show everyone what we're about really.
DK: Three late goals, we didn't do that much last year.
JD: No, we didn't. That is the one thing we're missing, we kept a lot of clean sheets, didn't concede many goals, obviously the final product let us down last year, but yeah when you've got Seth striking the way he does, getting into positions, making them runs he always looks like he's going to score when he gets in, so I'm really chuffed for him to score 2 and put the away.
DK: Yeah, all the goals (for Needham) are from former or current club Academy graduates!
JD: Yeah, you go, that's a good stat, isn't that?! Yeah, we're a tight knit bunch, like I said Seth really deserved it, took his goals well, obviously mine was put on a plate for me couldn't really miss, but obviously lads coming through the Academy score goals is brilliant for the club.
DK: Do you think you could've possibly had another goal or two tonight?
JD: Myself? I would never say no, but yeah I was sort of in the right place in the right time, maybe I had one in the first half which I put over the bar. Didn't really find myself in too many goalscoring opportunities, but I'll take the one and hopefully get more in the season.
DK: Another one (goal) Saturday?
JD: Fingers crossed, fingers crossed, that'd nice, wouldn't it?!
DK: Yeah, a big game, at home again, will that help?
JD: Yeah, I think so, obviously the pitch as it is suits us down to the ground. Halesowen obviously came up, beat Leiston at the weekend, so they're going to be no mugs, going to have to be on the top of our game, but like you say hopefully take the 4 goals in the second half as confidence, train well Thursday, recover and hopefully go again Saturday!
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Assistant Manager Tom Rothery also reflects on last night's win!
DK: How do you reflect on last night's game?
TR: Ultimately with cup games it’s always about getting through. First half we were in possession but too slow, not enough cutting edge, not enough runners in behind but again conceding created some of those issues as it then allowed Bury to sit in and counter which they did really well. Bit for us to break that down we need to move the ball quicker and have more fluidity and intensity in our play.
DK: Would you say the lads showed great resilience to come from 2-0 down?
TR: They reacted well obviously the sendings off aided that comeback but the first red card comes from making a run in behind which caused the GK to make a decision which he got wrong and it was worthy of a second yellow which then gives us a man advantage. I still think we didn’t do enough at times after that to work the outfield player who goes in goal but Seth’s introduction to the game certainly added that.
DK: Would you call it a more clinical second half performance?
TR: In part yes because we scored 4 but with the amount of possession we had we need to be creating more.
DK: It must've been pleasing to score multiple times late on and score from a corner, both things we didn't really do much last season?
TR: We don’t score enough from corners, last one was the final of the Suffolk cup, it’s something we work on but clearly still need to do more. Hopefully it helps confidence having scored 4 but again that final third area will be something that we will work on Thursday.
DK: Looking ahead, how important is it to take that momentum into Saturday?
TR: Winning games helps with momentum, every game is important so hopefully it helps but we will need to be better on Saturday to get a result.
DK: Halesowen will be another tough test, one the lads will need to be replicate the second half performance.
TR: Every game at this level is tough, they’ll be organised. They look like they have good technical players throughout the team and pace so they’ll come with huge threats that we will need to contain and hopefully we will give them some things to worry about.
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