I Thought We Were Really Good - Cooper

Last updated : 12 January 2015 By Covsupport News Service

Swindon Town manager Mark Cooper has said that he felt his side were really good during their 3-0 win against Coventry City at the Ricoh Arena.

Cooper told the media: "We've had some good away performances - Chesterfield and Leyton Orient spring to mind - but I thought in the first-half we were really good.

"I'm just pleased that we showed a lot of people tonight what we're about. That was my biggest worry tonight that we didn't freeze on the telly, and I thought for 70 minutes we played really, really well.

"I just asked the players to go and attack - keep the ball like we do, move and make the pitch really big - some of the football in the first-half was really good and I was really disappointed Michael Smith's effort didn’t go in because that was a wonderful piece of football.

"I don't like the scoreline 2-0 because you know what is going to happen. At half-time I tried to enforce that we had to start really quickly and fast - it's difficult, we knew Coventry would come at us and they did.

"We were a little bit sloppy in possession at the back and we started kicking too many long-balls - when we do that we turn it into a scrap and we're not as effective.

"We let the initiative slip for ten or 15 minutes but we got it back towards the end."