Michael Flynn hails Newport after comfortable Cambridge win
Posted Sunday, April 14, 2019 by PA
Michael Flynn was full of praise for his Newport side after their 3-0 win at Cambridge kept their Sky Bet League Two play-off hopes alive.
Newport’s win sees them remain five points outside the top seven with a game in hand on the teams above them going into the final weeks of the campaign.
Padraig Amond headed them in front inside four minutes to set them on their way to victory, with Jamille Matt and Harry McKirdy also scoring with former Cambridge man Robbie Willmott heavily involved in all three goals.
“I think we could have had a few more goals as well,” Flynn said.
“We could have won by five or six. I felt they should have scored two, it should have been 6-2.
“But the boys defended excellently and it shows what we’re about. We don’t give up and it’s one goal conceded now in five, home and away.
“Cambridge, on their day, are a very good team. They’ve just recently gone to Bury and won 3-0, so we knew it was going to be tough.
“I’m over the moon. The boys were fantastic; I think it was a near-enough perfect away performance. I thought it was brilliant.
“We’re going into the middle of April and Newport County are still in with a chance of getting in the play-offs.
“It’s not very often you say that, is it. So I’m very proud of what we’re doing as a group and the players deserve all the credit.”
Colin Calderwood did not try to disguise the fact his side had performed poorly as Cambridge’s winless run in home games was extended to five.
The U’s remain eight points above the bottom two with four matches left.
“You approach the game and you hope that you can win and obviously that would ease you away a bit more from the bottom two, but there are no complaints,” said Calderwood.
“We were second best, we had a poor start to the game. We haven’t defended the first goal particularly well, (and) the period up until half-time wasn’t enough for a team who are scrapping.
“We’re all disappointed. It was as if we played within ourselves a little bit. We lacked the intensity or the togetherness; everything was wrong today.
“We could be here for a long time talking about what we must do better but it’s very, very simple.
“You’ve got to be in the game longer to begin with, and then if you are behind, you’ve got to look like a team.
“We can’t accept individual and a collective performance of that level at any stage.
“Thank God our fans are passive people because what they’ve watched today in certain places, you’d have them howling.”
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