Cumbernauld Colts boss David Proctor says striker Ewan Macpherson produced one of many “finest particular person shows he’s seen” after a first-half hat-trick of their thumping 5-2 win over Dalbeattie Star.
After a trio of defeats to start the Lowland League season, Colts kick- began their marketing campaign with back-to-back wins in the course of the previous week.
They defeated East Stirlingshire 3-2 on the highway final midweek and backed that up with the beating of Star at Islecroft on Saturday.
Colts have been 5-1 up at half-time earlier than the hosts netted the one objective of the second half. Colts additionally had Dylan Tennant despatched off late on.
However Proctor was blown away by his facet’s show over the piece and had particular reward for his striker.
He beamed: “We got here out of the traps actually rapidly in opposition to Dalbeattie and that was our greatest efficiency of the season thus far, indubitably.
“To go 5-1 up at half-time was incredible.
“We set the bar so excessive in that first half, Dalbeattie have been all the time going to have a spell the place they got here again into it so it was disappointing to lose the objective within the second half.
“Ewan produced top-of-the-line particular person performances over 45 minutes that I’ve seen.
“He was enjoying in a wider space, however he was beating his man, slicing inside and he had an help in addition to his hat-trick.
“So it was actually pleasing.”
Colts are as much as twelfth within the desk however Proctor hopes his facet can begin enhancing on the again after conceding 15 targets in 5 video games.
He added: “We spoke about that after the sport, and maintaining our requirements excessive as a result of we've got misplaced too many targets thus far.
“The primary three video games have been in opposition to groups which might be fairly more likely to be positioned extremely [Rangers B, Tranent and Bo’ness] come the tip of the season, so it was all the time going to be fairly robust.
“If we generally is a wee bit tighter on the again and preserve some clear sheets, we’ll be doing okay as a result of we're actually scoring sufficient targets.”
Colts are sidelined this weekend, being the idle facet within the 19-team division, and can begin making ready for a South Problem Cup conflict with Cowdenbeath on August 20.
”You all the time need to preserve the momentum going and construct on a win,” the 38-year-old stated.
”Sadly, we aren't going to have the ability to do this, but it surely permits us to work on issues defensively greater than something.”
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