Danny Cowley: We were fortunate to get three points



Posted Sunday, August 05, 2018 by PA

Danny Cowley: We were fortunate to get three points

Lincoln manager Danny Cowley admitted his side “rode their luck” after the season-opening 1-0 win against Northampton.

Matt Green scored the only goal of the game when heading in Neal Eardley’s cross three minutes into the second half.

The Imps had to survive a barrage of pressure for much of the game and were indebted to goalkeeper Josh Vickers, who was in superb form to brilliantly keep out Andy Williams, Daniel Powell and Sam Hoskins.

“We rode our luck today and managed to get on the right side of a close game,” said Cowley. “Josh Vickers was magnificent.

“We take the positive that we’ve won and we’ve kept a clean sheet, and also the fact that many other teams will come here and get success, but I do think it’s a reality check.

“Not for us in the dressing room because we’re pretty calm and clear of where we’re at but maybe for some others.

“We made some errors and if you look at the chances they had in the first half, all of them came from our errors and that was uncharacteristic and it unsettled us.

“We then tweaked it a little and got control of the game, but we started to play for the end when we got the goal instead of playing in the moment.

“They ran out of ideas at around 80 minutes and all we needed to do was see the game out but then we got mentally tired and fatigued and lost concentration, which gave them a couple of chances.”

Northampton manager Dean Austin was pleased with his side’s performance, if not result.

He said: “It’s obviously disappointing but I’m delighted with how the boys played and seeing how Lincoln celebrated at the end shows that they’ve taken a scalp and got out of jail.

“We’re not going to be one of those teams that get the ball and bang it from back to front. That’s not what I believe in and we’ve spoken about it as a group.

“We’ve just got to keep the faith and keep working and progressing and learning and keep believing in what we’re doing because there were a lot of positives out there.

“We score one of those early chances and it’s a different game because they’ve got to come out, but in terms of how we played and our variety of play, I thought it was pretty good.

“There are certain things that we need to do better because when teams come and sit behind the ball, particularly on a slow pitch, we need to work the ball a bit quicker to get ourselves out.

“If we can do that, I think we’ll have a lot of joy.”

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