Southport manager Liam Watson spoke to cambridgeunited.com reporter Dave Gray following his sides 0-0 draw with the U's on Saturday. His comments are below.
"I wasn't overly pleased by the way we played in the first half I feel we could have got a little bit more out of it. Cambridge came more into it after the break but I thought we coped with that and defended well. They had once chance when Wilmott got in down the side and Platt got the crowd oohing but to be honest that was just a poor cross that hit the bar.
"Other than those there was the twenty-five yarder that skimmed our crossbar but then we missed a glorious chance with Earl Davis from the corner, the ball has beaten Simon Brown all he has got to do is get his head on it and I just don't know how he has missed it.
"Looking back if you had offered me four points at the start of the week with away games at Kidderminster and Cambridge coming up I'd have snapped your hand off. We've got our first away win on Tuesday and now our first clean sheet of the season, so it's been a good week and we now have to build on it. If we go through this season picking a win and a draw up we will be fine. It's going to take a good side to come and play us off the park.
"We will always be competitive and today showed how we are become more streetwise. We killed the game at every opportunity, which is what you need to do when you are away from home. There is no point me coming here with part-time players and trying anything else. The lads have been at work all week and most of them we out of their houses to get on the coach at eight o'clock this morning to play here in front of two and a half thousand.
"We don't need to sell ourselves we just need to come and be professional and get a result and that is what we have done. We try and get the ball forward early, that annoyed the people behind our bench I did have to wonder if they have forgotten that type of play got them to two cup quarter finals and back to back promotions. Saying that we also have a plan b in getting players on the pitch to hold on to the ball and play a bit when it's appropriate. It was only in the last fifteen minutes we tired a bit otherwise it could have been better than a nil-nil."
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