Westfield assistant manager Dave Powell post-Moneyfields

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00:00Dave, an impressive 2-1 win against Moneyfield, it's continued to good form at 10 points from the last 12, must be really happy.

00:07Yeah, yeah, and added to that a cup game which sort of kicks it all off actually against Fleet in the Audershot Senior.

00:12Yeah, really gritty performance today, I think the kind of conditions didn't really allow us to play much football.

00:20We've played some good football lately, certainly Tuesday night at Leatherhead.

00:23But yeah, we showed another side to us today as well, two well-worked goals.

00:30Really, really pleased for Tom Dryer to get off the mark with us after coming really close in the last couple of weeks.

00:39And yeah, the winning goals, it's a fantastic goal, fantastic goal, really pleased.

00:46Yeah, Tom's obviously come back from injury, hasn't he?

00:49Yeah.

00:50Yeah, so it was a nice move as well before that and he finished it off well.

00:54Yeah, he's done ever so well.

00:56Obviously, difficult conditions today and they've been in good form as well, Moneyfield, so it's a real good result.

01:03Yeah, I think 10 wins from 12 before today.

01:05So, yeah, form, side and division, really, they gave us a real turning over down there.

01:14Lots of energy, lots of bite, lots of physicality and yeah, we had to try and outdo that today in order to win the game.

01:27Yeah, so you would have been fully well up before the game and obviously stepped up really in that regard.

01:31Yeah, absolutely.

01:34They obviously had the early penalty and Lewis has made the save.

01:38Yeah.

01:39But then after 20 minutes onwards, you really took control from that point, really, didn't you?

01:43Yeah, and I think we were good for a 1-0.

01:48I think we should put maybe another one.

01:51Gali's done so well.

01:53Like I said at half-time, I'm running out of superlatives for him.

01:58He's done so, so well and he deserves every bit of luck that he gets.

02:03Fantastic lads, a lot of great lads and a good keeper, a really good keeper.

02:08And he's showing that he's well suited to this level.

02:12Yeah, I'll be honest with you, I thought the penalty was harsh.

02:17Have a look back at that on the video later on tomorrow.

02:22But yeah, there's nothing we can do about it now and luckily we got a let off with that one.

02:27Yeah, so then get yourselves in front with a nice goal and a 1-0 at half-time, playing well.

02:32What was the message at half-time going into that second half?

02:35When the side's down against you and then you come in at the break, there's always going to be a reaction.

02:41And we had to up our levels because even though we'd created a few openings,

02:50I don't think we'd worked quite as hard as we have done in recent weeks.

02:54So yeah, we had to do that.

02:57If we didn't do that, then we were going to get nothing from the game.

03:01So yeah, and I think we did.

03:04I think we were very, very resolute.

03:06I think we defended ever so well.

03:10Dylan Merchant was fantastic.

03:14Quincy did really well on his return to the side.

03:17And Kyle Bailey on his second debut for the club.

03:20Really good as well.

03:22And Beeds and Billy in their positions as well.

03:26Yeah, really good all round.

03:28You must have been delighted with the reaction to the equaliser,

03:31because only a few minutes later, get back in front from the free-kick.

03:34Yeah, I think as I've said a couple of times, we stumbled across Louis a few weeks ago

03:39in terms of his dead-ball delivery.

03:41Great ball in, Kyle header across.

03:45And the desire for Billy, and Caleb was behind him as well,

03:50for those two to get on the end of that.

03:52Yeah, that's what you want.

03:54You show desire like that, you stand a really good chance of winning games.

03:57And then once you got back in front then,

04:00they didn't really, apart from they only had the one against the post in stoppage time,

04:04that was it really.

04:06Yeah, a bit of a scare from where I was stood in the dugout.

04:09You're thinking, that's close.

04:11And obviously it was close.

04:14Yeah, I think they put us under a lot of pressure.

04:18I felt we should have done a little bit better going forwards.

04:25I wouldn't say we saw the game out comfortably,

04:27but we definitely did enough.

04:29Yeah, maybe a bit more composure going forwards when you had the chance,

04:32but obviously you saw the game out well.

04:35And as you say, really solid throughout.

04:38It's hard to pick a man of the match today,

04:41other performances across the team today really.

04:45Yeah, I would agree.

04:47I think you'd probably have to pick someone across the back line really,

04:52or Gally.

04:54But yeah, I'll probably go.

04:59Dylan or Billy really.

05:01I'll let the manager choose who he wants,

05:04but they were one of those two for me.

05:07Showing that solid side, picking up the three points,

05:10continuing in good form.

05:11It must be a real good feeling in that changing room afterwards.

05:15Yeah, we noticed it beforehand.

05:17Crosser said to me before in the warm-up,

05:19that it's amazing what a couple of wins can do.

05:22Yeah, exactly that.

05:23It's certainly lifted everybody.

05:27It's Manu's birthday tomorrow as well,

05:29so he always brings a smile.

05:33And he brought some doughnuts as well today,

05:36which is a nice celebratory treat.

05:39Not that I need them.

05:41And yeah, good form.

05:43Obviously, I presume you're going to keep taking it game by game.

05:46But yeah, just chipping away maybe?

05:49Yeah, Met Police Tuesday night.

05:51Yeah, that'll be a difficult game again.

05:53And yeah, we've got to do the same again.

05:56But hopefully have a couple of people back,

05:59which will help to bolster the squad,

06:01because we're a little bit light today.

06:03But yeah, the importance of having a squad is that everybody stays fit.

06:10If everybody does that, then we're good.

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