Porthmadog manager Chris Jones reacts to his side's 3-2 Welsh Cup win against Port Talbot Town

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00:00Well, Chris, the cup dream is alive and kicking, but it took a long time to get over Port Alberts with a 3-2 win.

00:08Yeah, I think you've got to give full credit to Port Alberts today.

00:11Obviously, it's a great achievement for them to come as far as they have, as it is for us.

00:15And a lot of travel for them to come down here today.

00:18And I thought they were excellent first half.

00:19I thought, you know, we weren't really at it again, which is something we've got to wear to rest in training before the next game.

00:24Because we can't keep starting games the way we are at the moment.

00:26And, you know, again, I'd say they were the better team in the first half.

00:30But I said to the lads at the end of the game, I don't want to be negative all the time.

00:33You know, we all want perfection, but we're not able to get that every week.

00:36So the fact that the spirit that they showed in that second half is just keep going, keep going, hoping that something would happen for us.

00:42And then obviously, Liam's had a dream debut with the two goals that he scored to put us through to the next round.

00:46And it's a bit similar of the cup run all the way through.

00:49It's not been perfect at times, but we've just kept going and we've ended up getting the results at the end.

00:53Strange not to win a game by penalties.

00:55It's the first round we've not had to go to penalties.

00:58Do you think it was penalties at one stage?

01:00When it gets to that stage, obviously, I was thinking who was going to be the takers and stuff.

01:03But I did think there was another goal in the game at either end.

01:07They were, you know, we had a lot of bodies forward.

01:09So if they got a counter-attack right, they would have had an opportunity.

01:12But we were nice and calm for the goal.

01:14Well, it's dropped for Liam after a few good passes and he's took the goal perfectly.

01:20And like I say, it's an absolute dream debut for him.

01:22A dream debut.

01:23And an injury to Dan Atkins as well, which upset the first half as well.

01:28He took a heavy knock in the first half and we were going to wait till half-time.

01:31But then watched him try to make a couple of the runs and it just wasn't right.

01:34So obviously we had to make the change there and then.

01:37So we're going to go to Rome next Saturday.

01:40Another top of the table clash.

01:42How do you expect that to work?

01:44I think we've got to prepare properly for it.

01:46Because like I say, we can't keep starting games the way we are at the minute.

01:49And thinking that we're going to rescue it at the end.

01:51Because there'll be a week where we can't.

01:53It was a little bit like that against NFA.

01:55You know, we left it too late to try and rescue the game.

01:57So we'll prepare right and try and make a much better start than we have done in recent weeks.

02:01Still in the Cup. Diachol Chris.

02:02Diol.

02:04Diol.