REACTION | James Coton, Kellen Fiddy | Needham Market Reserves v Stanway Pegasus | 06.09.2025 |
Double goalscorer James Coton reflects on a brilliant 5-2 win for the Reserves.
DK: Congratulations on the win, what did you make of it?
JC: I thought that it was a good game and a really good team performance.We defended really well and caused them lots of problems going forward through fast attacks and good quality crosses into the box.
DK: What's the overall emotion from you after today's win?
JC: I am really happy with today’s win and two goals.
DK: Can you talk us through your goals?
JC: For the first goal I played the ball out to Alex he then beat his man and played it back to me just inside the box I finished it first time into the bottom right corner. For the second goal I was 1 on 1 with the defender I shifted and put the ball bottom right.
DK: How important do you think today's win is?
JC: I think today’s win is important for us as a team as it shows that we can beat anyone in this league. It also gives us confidence going into Tuesday night that we can go to Framingham and beat them.
DK: Framlingham up next, what are you expecting in general?
JC: I am expecting a hard game away at Framingham but I back us to go there and get a result.
Goalscorer Kellen Fiddy reflects on yesterday's win.
DK: Brilliant result today, how pleased are you?
KF:Yes massive result today, I thought the lads showed a great representation of what we are striving towards each day in training and starting to get some reward for the work we’re putting in is a really nice feeling.
DK: How would you describe the performance?
KF: Yeah the performance today was really positive we said in the changing rooms after the game, that the main struggle for us so far this season has been the consistency throughout the game we’ve had good spells of 45-60 minutes but today felt more of a complete performance that we can look back on and use as examples for future games.
DK: You must be delighted to have recorded such a big result, in clinical fashion?
KF: We knew coming into the game that it was always going to be a tough one as we were up against a good Stanway side who more than challenge in any game they play but at the same time we also know the quality we have, and with a bit more ruthlessness in front of goal we can put big results on the board like we have shown today.
DK: Talk us through your goal and how much does it mean?
KF: Buzzing to get on the scoresheet again, we have been doing a lot of work on overlaps/underlaps in training recently so when i’ve seen Flynn on the ball take his touch inside more i knew the space would be on for the overlap and i know he’s good enough to pick me out and as he’s slid me inside the box i took a touch to compose myself and slotted it in the far corner to put us ahead for the first time in the game so yeah great feeling.
DK: As a group, what is the overall reflection to the result?
KF: The lads realise it was a good performance today and know that we have to use results like this as momentum pushing forwards, take the individual positives as well as team positives and continue to work hard to strive towards our aims for the season.
DK: How would you summarise the season so far?
KF: The season has been filled with ups and downs already which is expected and us boys know that there’s no easy games in this league and if we’re not 100% on it every week we will get punished for it but i definitely can feel us growing into the season and really starting to kick on.
DK: A important trip to Framlingham on Tuesday, what are your thoughts going into that?
KF: Yeah Framlingham are one of the top teams in the league and is a tough team to come up against especially when they’re having a good run as they are at the moment, but we will leave everything out there to get a result and use todays game as a real statement to the other teams in the league and build confidence off of it, we showed today at our best we can compete with anyone.
