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Ebbsfleet United: A Game Of Two Mistakes

Posted by FC Halifax Town
Posted on Sun 18 Feb 2018
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FC Halifax Town caretaker manager Neil Young has said that defensive mistakes cost his side after they fell to a 2-1 home defeat against Ebbsfleet United yesterday.

Corey Whitely and Luke Coulson scored two goals in the space of five minutes for Ebbsfleet after Matty Kosyloโ€™s penalty opened the scored in the first-half for Town.

Young believes that Halifax must improve defensively as errors at the back proved costly in the second-period.

โ€œIn football, particularly when youโ€™re down near the bottom, youโ€™re relying on those small things in the game,โ€ Young told Shaymen TV.

โ€œFor their first goal, weโ€™ve allowed the player to turn in the box, thereโ€™s been a few deflections and then obviously the finish.โ€

โ€œFor the second goal, there were two free headers from a set piece and theyโ€™re a big side physically.โ€

The Shaymen had chances, particularly in the first 45 minutes, with Tom Denton seeing a couple of headers well saved by Nathan Ashmore whilst Town threatened late on as they pushed for an equaliser.

โ€œAfter the first half, we probably should have been two or three goals in front,โ€ claimed Young, โ€œthere were two or three unbelievable saves from their goalkeeper.โ€

โ€œThen in the second-half, we switched off in two parts of the game. We still had chances at the end, the ball was kicked off the line, the keeper made some saves.โ€

โ€œBut, itโ€™s disappointing that we switched off on those two occasions. It was a game of two mistakes on our part.โ€

โ€œWeโ€™ve got to get the little bits right because itโ€™s the little bits that cost us the game. Weโ€™ve got to make sure that when weโ€™re in there, defending, itโ€™s bodies on the line time. I canโ€™t knock the effort and commitment.โ€

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