East Kilbride Thistle captain David Grey says his facet dug in deep to edge out Kello Rovers 5-4 within the West of Scotland League Third Division on Saturday.
Grey was delighted with the efficiency, significantly because it got here after a bruising 8-2 defeat at giants Darvel within the South Problem Cup second spherical.
And the fifth purpose proved to be essential, as Kello bagged a fourth after Matty Grey was red-carded late within the recreation.
Grey mentioned: “Though we let 4 objectives in, we in all probability felt we had been the higher workforce all through.
“I didn’t actually really feel that that they had a significant spell, they caught us within the break after we had scored, for many of their objectives.
“There have been a few issues that we may have finished an terrible lot higher, but it surely was a chalk and cheese efficiency from the week earlier than.
“We began fairly properly, had lots of the ball and some probabilities, and so they scored from a protracted throw-in.
“We then went straight up the park, acquired a nook, and scored from that, for 1-1.
“It was one-for-one after that till the pink card – Matty Grey acquired despatched off.
“The ball has gone excessive of the again 4, he’s gone throughout Matty and he’s in one-on-one, so he had a little bit of a call to make, and took one for the workforce.
“On the finish we ended up needing the fifth purpose, as a result of they’ve scored late on.”
Grey says the three factors had been vital, particularly after dropping 4-0 to Port Glasgow final weekend.
He mentioned: “It was an enormous win, these ones are all the time massive ones. I mentioned to the boys after the sport I like video games like that, as a result of we dug in, saved our form, and saved what we had, even with us dropping 4 objectives.
“We’ve managed to play fairly properly on a troublesome pitch, and rating 5 objectives.”
Regardless of the 8-2 midweek score-line, Grey felt Jags may take rather a lot from their efficiency.
He mentioned: “We really took lots of positives from the cup recreation, apart from the primary 5 or 10 minutes, once I felt we had been going to have an enormous downside.
“They'd scored a few objectives early, and we regarded as if we had been contributing nothing to the sport, however all of us acquired collectively, stepped up, and the objectives we scored had been actually good.
“We performed by way of them, so there have been really a couple of positives, aside from the score-line.”
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