Swindon boss Phil Brown: We ended Yeovil’s clean-sheet record in style

Posted Sunday, September 23, 2018 by PA

Swindon boss Phil Brown used Yeovil’s record of six-successive clean sheets in all competitions as an incentive ahead of his side’s League Two match – and it certainly worked as they left Huish Park as 3-0 winners.

Second-half goals from Steven Azate, Matty Taylor and Elijah Adebayo secured all three points as the Robins bounced back from a 2-1 home defeat to Bury the previous week.

“I think credit goes to the players for their mentality this week. They were bang at it. We had a game plan,” Brown said.

“You have to take your hat off to any team that wins 6-0 away from home (Yeovil beat Newport 6-0 in their previous match) but it wasn’t that, it was the six clean sheets I was interested in.

“The first half I thought was more-or-less one-way traffic. We had a real foothold in the game for 30 to 35 minutes.

“We knew the first goal was going to be important and when it came, we stuck to the game plan and I don’t think Yeovil could change theirs and consequently we went on to win comfortably.”

Brown was disappointed that at 2-0 referee Matt Donohue gave Yeovil an 83rd-minute penalty when Keshi Anderson was adjudged to have pushed Jordan Green in the box.

“I’m full of praise for referees because I could not do the job. But to give them a lifeline at 2-0 – and I thought that was what it was because it was a nothing challenge,” he added.

“It was not a penalty. He gives them a lifeline to make for an exciting finish and that’s not their job. Their job is to referee the game.”

As it was, Olufela Olomola put the resulting spot-kick over the crossbar in a moment that Glovers manager Darren Way felt reflected his side’s poor afternoon.

“You get the penalty and you’ve got a chance to get back into the game so I suppose that summed our day up really,” Way said.

“It’s important he (Olomola) keeps his head up. He’s very disappointed in the dressing room but players miss penalties. I just don’t want it to become a habit.

“We’re really disappointed. We knew Swindon were going to come and try and stop our record. The energy they got from that made them more determined.

“I felt they played better than us. We didn’t get our game going at all and I’ve said to the players that we need to hold our
hands up and look each other in the eye and say that wasn’t good enough.

“I’ll be really interested now to see the response.

“I’ve been talking all week to the players about complacency and what it means. They need to understand that that’s not us and that’s not acceptable.”