Badshot Lea manager Gavin Smith post-Ascot United

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00:00Gavin, for 40 minutes I thought you deservedly 0-0 and had some good chances to take the

00:07lead there and then I guess obviously two goals right before half-time is a bit of a

00:11bad... doesn't help does it?

00:13Doesn't help, I thought they were the better team if I'm honest from the start of the game

00:18and probably could have scored themselves before we even had our chances so we had two

00:23very good chances that I don't even think we worked the goalkeeper properly so we're

00:27disappointed with that but would we have been deserving of a lead? Probably not but

00:31it's happened to us plenty of times when we've probably been on top and haven't scored and

00:34then been done by saying but we couldn't put the ball in the net and then we give two...

00:38from our point of view I thought nowhere near tight enough and people looked yards off their

00:43man today and it looked like a little bit of a clueless performance if I'm honest by

00:48a group that I think have done well recently without getting results, come off the pitch

00:54going how we lost, how we lost but today we deserve to lose. I thought they were good

01:00to be fair, whether they were good because we made them look good or whether they were

01:05at fault I don't know, it's a tough one. They probably played better and lost the game this

01:10year because they didn't have to do a lot once they went in front to win the game and

01:14we just got worse and worse as the game went on with our... second half was just a non-event

01:20and it's disappointing because the lads have been good in recent weeks but that was a shadow

01:24of what we've shown as a team so credit to them, they took advantage of it and they coasted

01:31to a win, had a good old jolly up here, took their keeper off with three minutes left and

01:35had a right old, you know, a good time which they're entitled to do.

01:40Yeah so from our point of view I can't look at... I thought there was a couple of... two

01:43players maybe stood out for me in terms of what they did. Charlie I thought went in there

01:48and gave a good account of himself and I thought David did alright to be fair, I don't think

01:52he gave the ball away a lot, maybe could have done more with it but everyone else who have

01:58been with us for the last few weeks were terrible, especially defensively.

02:03Yeah, obviously I guess hard to put a finger on why after we've saved the last five games

02:09that we've been a lot better than that obviously.

02:12I don't think we've played, we've just said it in there, I don't think we've played a

02:15team who were that good if I'm honest and we haven't got anything out of it. So that

02:19says a little bit about us as a group but if I look back I don't think Westfield deserved

02:24anything out of the game, I don't think they were particularly good on the day.

02:28Rayners Lane, Harabura, Leatherhead Saturday and Hazen Yeddin, none of them... I don't

02:35know if we played really well now because we definitely didn't play well today and I

02:39don't know if they were really, really good or whether they just took advantage of a team

02:43they were up against who just rolled over and didn't do a lot.

02:47I mean obviously they are having a very good season up in the play-offs so I would suggest

02:50that they are a good team.

02:51Yeah, they're a confident group and they know what they're doing and they do everything

02:56right to be honest. Our boys couldn't work out even being told if you've got someone

03:02up your back you don't play it to them, spin it in behind. But when we did spin it in behind

03:06we didn't take advantage anyway.

03:09Yeah, there were those two good chances at 0-0 but obviously Finn puts one wide and so

03:14it didn't quite work the keeper. And then the first goal at 1-0 at 40 and then the second

03:22really violent half-time.

03:23Listen, the first goal was a good move from their point of view but we're looking at going

03:26why are you not right up him, why are you not tight and they're all the little things

03:29that make a difference. It's a good finish because Ben's got that and he's played a good

03:32level of football so when he gets that opportunity he's not missing where we're missing.

03:38The second goal, Eden took an age on the ball, should have just kicked it down the pitch.

03:42Took ages, took ages, took ages and they end up scoring from that really.

03:49So yeah, they could have scored more second half if we're honest. Could have been worse

03:55than it was. They put some good balls across the box, hit the post I think, didn't they?

04:00Yeah, they did, yeah.

04:02So yeah, could have been worse but at the end of the day it's three points and they

04:07look like they need the points because of where they are and we look like a team that

04:12just don't accept that we're in a relegation battle and we need points. But like I say,

04:17it's whether the group can respond now because that's the key thing. From five performances

04:25where we thought we were good enough to get something, today we definitely didn't deserve

04:29anything.

04:31And a very quick turnaround now obviously, same for everyone in the league, obviously

04:34playing today and Saturday but I guess you'll just see before Farnham on Saturday, you'll

04:39obviously decide in your mind what you want to do but you'll sort of see how everyone

04:42pulls out.

04:43Listen, it's another really tough game where on paper we ain't expected to win but I want

04:48to see something out of the team. We've been excited by the last few weeks, I thought we'd

04:54looked at danger and we should be getting things out of the game, looking like we can

04:58compete at a level but today it didn't look like that was the case. It looked like a team

05:04destined for relegation, playing a team probably looking to get in the play-off and looking

05:09to get promoted. So yeah, tough one.

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