Waterford defeat Sligo: “Starting to believe!” | Graham Coughlan & John Russell | Stephen Kenny reacts to Pats win
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What was the significance of Waterford's win against Sligo?
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Graeme Coughlan, an absolutely brilliant result tonight for yourselves. You must be delighted, I suppose, after that week break to kind of get back to a win in ways.
Yeah, look, it was a big result for us. It was a big performance, clean sheet and a win, three points. So we're... Let's be honest, we've chucked points away over the last couple of weeks, so we needed to win tonight. The lads certainly responded, played a game to the letter of the law, the blueprint we gave them, they stuck to it. I thought they were impressive. First half, we were a little bit sloppy, a little bit nervy, I think. We'll have to look back, but I just felt there was times to make passes, there was times in the first half to put a foot on the ball. Just bring a bit of calmness, a bit of cool, calm collectedness to our play. And we didn't. We looked a little bit nervy. So we should have really been two up as well through the header off the corner.
How did Graham Coughlan feel about the team's performance after the break?
Was it canny? And those little moments, I just felt, oh, here we go again. Second half, we've come out of the blocks really, really fast again. We'd won it two chances. But then we lost our way. We lost our way. We stopped doing what we were good at. We ran out of legs and we had to make some changes and I thought the subs had a huge, huge impact coming off the bench and that's all we ask of them, have that impact, go out and help the team and they helped us tonight, they got us over the line.
It's one of those, I know you mentioned, when Hayden Khan misses that header in the first half, you're kind of thinking, here we go again. But equally, there's a point in the second half where Alex Nolan gets down the right-hand side, plays a ball in, it hits off John, it hits off Stephen, somehow it doesn't go into the back of the net. It kind of felt like luck bounced your way a little bit tonight as well, didn't it?
You might say, look, I would say resilience, I'd say character, I'd say bodies on the line, I'd say dying for the cause. All of those things that we try and practice, we try and preach. These lads, if you look at them now and if you look at them probably, I don't know, this is subjective. But if you look at them probably six, eight weeks, ten weeks ago, they weren't doing that.
What strategies did Waterford use to secure their victory?
So they are now. So the switch, whatever the switch is, they have now started to believe in themselves. They've now got a little bit of confidence. They are now putting their bodies on the line. So, yeah, really pleasing. I thought John was outstanding tonight, his heroic defending. He's been brilliant since I've come through the door. Kenny as well, I'm longing to treat him. And they're getting annoyed, they're getting frustrated week in, week out because we're not keeping clean sheets. So hopefully they'll be pleased tonight. But like I said to the lads, and I'll say it again, one swallow doesn't make a summer. We've got a lot of work. We've got a long way to go. And we've got to build on what we've done tonight.
We've set standards tonight.
What role did player substitutions play in the match outcome?
Now we can't come off it. If we come off it, there'll be issues with me. I'll have words with them if we come off it. So we need to stay on it and we need to keep pushing and pushing. We need to be relentless in the pursuit of success.
How proud are you I suppose of that second goal in particular kind of reflects all the sort of instincts and sort of philosophy you've been trying to instill in these players like that long ball into the box from Will flicked on by John and then hit him by York and only after 36 seconds after coming onto the pitch like it is kind of what you've been aiming for isn't it?
Well, look, there's a way of playing when you're bottom of the table, you're cut adrift, 10, 11 points, whatever the case was when we walked through the front door.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What was the significance of Waterford's win against Sligo?
0:00–1:16
2
How did Graham Coughlan feel about the team's performance after the break?
1:16–2:24
3
What strategies did Waterford use to secure their victory?
2:24–3:00
4
What role did player substitutions play in the match outcome?
3:00–4:53
5
How did the players' confidence impact their performance?
4:53–5:54
6
What challenges did Sligo face during the match?
5:54–6:58
7
How did Stephen Kenny react to the match results?
6:58–7:53
8
What lessons can be learned from this match for future games?
7:53–16:17
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