Woking assistant manager Simon Bassey post-Southampton under-21s

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00:00Simon, 2-1 win tonight against the Hampton Under-21s in the National League Cup.

00:05Thoughts on that evening?

00:06Yeah, good workout for us.

00:08They always, Premier League Championship Under-21 teams,

00:13they're technically very good,

00:15cause us different threats than sometimes we face in the National League.

00:19So, yeah, it's a good workout for us.

00:20And I thought on the whole, we stuck to the game plan really well

00:23and just put them on a goal we conceded, but yeah, fairly comfortable.

00:28Yeah, and obviously they've always had a reputation of having a good academy.

00:32And as you say, it is a sort of a good different test,

00:34different style of play to come up against

00:36and work on your distances and all that sort of thing.

00:38Yeah, absolutely.

00:39Absolutely.

00:40You know, they cause that threat and we've made a lot of changes.

00:43Obviously made four changes again at half time, which is never easy.

00:47You know, pretty much half your outfield team.

00:49So, yeah, just to get back into the swing of it for them.

00:52Some good minutes in the bank for some.

00:55Tactical with our substitutions.

00:58And luckily, we didn't take any injuries on

01:00so we could execute our plan, which was good.

01:03So, everybody off their feet tomorrow

01:06and we've got a big game on Saturday.

01:08Yeah, obviously a very big game against Forest Queen on Saturday

01:10and in this competition, obviously no injuries.

01:12That's obviously always ideal to come through on stage, isn't it?

01:14Yeah, yeah.

01:15It's the most important thing, you know, no injuries.

01:17You know, good minutes in for Wardy,

01:19good minutes for Timmy Akinola.

01:21So, yeah, Chin's got 90 minutes under his belt.

01:25So, all positives from our point of view.

01:27And Josh Kelly getting his first goal?

01:28Yeah, really pleased with Josh.

01:30You know, just goes to show, you don't stop working hard.

01:33You get good fortune and, you know, he pressed really well

01:35and managed to turn the ball over in a nice finish.

01:38And, you know, he's probably had a couple of chances

01:40in the couple of games that he's been here

01:42and been unlucky to get his first goal.

01:44So, nice to get off the mark today.

01:462-0 up at half-time.

01:47What was the message of going into that second half?

01:48No, I mean, as I say, we made four changes and it's difficult.

01:51So, we have to make sure we get up to speed straight away second half.

01:54And we're pretty disappointed with the goal we give away.

01:57It was a poor from our point of view.

02:00But, you know, other than that, we cut a couple of good saves by Will.

02:05Nice to see him back and, yeah, just see it through in the end.

02:09Yeah, that was another sort of positive, wasn't it?

02:11Will obviously, you know, first minutes back, obviously, after the injury.

02:13Yeah, you know, he's been bouncing about the place

02:18waiting to get his chance to get fit and come back.

02:21He's worked really, really hard and credit to Jake Hyde for that.

02:25He's put him through his paces in the gym

02:27and Will's really bought into it, come back really strong

02:30and been, yeah, dying to get his chance.

02:33And, yeah, nice for him to get 90 minutes today.

02:36He hasn't, he's probably only had a week's training.

02:38So, yeah, it's still early for him, but, yeah, nice to get him back out there.

02:42Obviously, yeah, positive to get the win.

02:44And now sort of full thoughts, obviously, will turn naturally towards Forest Green on Saturday.

02:48Yeah, you know, good game for us, you know.

02:51So, yeah, look to get a good crowd at home.

02:54And, yeah, when one of the top teams come down, you know,

02:58like we showed with York the other day, we can give them a real game if we're at our best.

03:03And that's what we've got to do now.

03:04Go away, rest up and come back to work Thursday morning with a plan.

03:08And we'll go through that with the players and see if we can execute that Saturday.

03:12Bye.

03:13Bye.

03:14Bye.

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