Cooper hails Shaymen’s determined performance
Assistant manager Andy Cooper praised FC Halifax Town's resilience and character after their 2-1 home win against Woking, writes Tom Scargill.
It's now three wins on the spin for Town thanks to goals from Luke Summerfield and Florent Hoti.
Cooper felt The Shaymen did enough to deserve the win. "Both teams will feel they had chances, us more in the first-half, not able to capitalise on a couple of breakaways," he said.
"Really good play to get in the box and could potentially have been a couple more goals up with the chances we had.
"But over the balance of play I think 2-1's a fair result.
"We know you have to dig in, it's tough, they launch the balls onto you and you've got to deal with the quality they've got in the box.
"But ultimately, we stood up to the test well. Credit to the lads, it's a tough schedule.
"They've absolutely worked their socks off for us today off the back of a really tough run of games, especially here with the surface, it's difficult, it's sapping, it's tough to play on.
"Woking get to do it once, we have it as our home ground, it's hard work, but I think to a man, and those coming off the bench, everyone's absolutely grafted relentlessly to get us over the line, which is pleasing.
"It probably wasn't ever going to be the prettiest later on in the game, we know that.
"We'd like a bit more control but I think on the balance of play we feel we were worthy of the three points."
It was another performance of two halves from Town, who impressed in the first 45 before Woking got control after the restart.