Dyer hails players after Woking knock Swindon out of FA Cup - 7M sport

Dyer hails players after Woking knock Swindon out of FA Cup



Posted Monday, December 03, 2018 by PA

Dyer hails players after Woking knock Swindon out of FA Cup

Assistant manager Ian Dyer hailed his side after striker Jake Hyde returned to haunt old club Swindon by firing non-league Woking to a 1-0 win at the County Ground.

Swindon academy product Hyde’s 56th minute header was enough to send the National League side into the FA Cup third round for the first time in 22 years.

Dyer said: “It was quite difficult and my heart rate has just about gone back to normal after that.

“It was an outstanding day for the football club, the players have done the club, themselves and the management proud.

“I thought it was a real together performance, we knew coming here to a team in League Two, two leagues up, and on a decent run of form themselves, we’d have to me almost perfect in terms of our performance, and it was as close as we could get to that.

“Defensively we were outstanding – the back four, the goalkeeper, the energy of the midfield and at the right time we popped up with some quality going the other way.”

League Two Swindon are 36 places above Woking in the football pyramid but the Surrey part-timers kept their hosts quiet in the first half.

Jak McCourt’s long-range effort saved by Cards goalkeeper Craig Ross was as close as Swindon came to scoring before half-time.

The visitors had a strong penalty appeal turned down when Ellis Iandolo appeared to foul Max Kretzschmar inside the box.

Woking took the lead 11 minutes after the re-start when Hyde expertly nodded in Josh Casey’s left wing cross to spark scenes of jubilation in the away end.

Swindon tried to apply pressure late on but Woking’s stubborn defence held firm with Scott Twine’s close-range blocked effort their only major score.

Home manager Richie Wellens criticised the attitude of his players.

Wellens said: “It’s the cup, we’ve seen it so many times over the years where there’s a shock and that had many of the ingredients.

“We were slightly below par, we were far too slow and wanted to play in front of them too much.

“I’m really disappointed from how good we started on Tuesday, to starting sloppy when the big word of the week was attitude.

“We didn’t think they had as much ability as us, they can still run as hard and work as hard. I still think we wanted to win the game, it was just far too slow.”

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