Jon Meeney said he was happy with Sutton’s fourth performance of pre-season, but commented on the importance of working on certain things.
The U’s secured a fairly comprehensive victory over Crystal Palace’s Academy, but fell short of the scoreline to match it as two goals conceded late on secured a 4-2 victory at Gander Green Lane, despite entering the final seven minutes 4-0 up.
“Another good test, all part of the process” said Meeney. “A really good, technical, athletic Crystal Palace Under-21s that posed us different questions to the other games. It’s nice that today we’ve able to come through that again”.
“There are still things to work on, we don’t like conceding two goals late on, but that was a different test as we were down to ten players, so another scenario [to deal with] and that’s what pre-season is all about.”
Ashley Nadesan notched another two goals to take his pre-season tally to five already, and Meeney commented on another extremely positive display from the 31-year old.
“That’s what Ashley Nadesan can do. He’s a he’s a number nine. We all know his strengths but what we were really pleased about was his teammates seeing his movement, and then the timing and the execution of the pass to allow him to get into those positions, and once he’s there, we have we have full belief that he will he will score the goals.”
While results aren’t necessarily the most important thing in pre-season, the First Team Coach did touch on the confidence built from taking such confident leads, and bodes well heading into the new campaign.
“At the end of the day we all have desired outcomes that we want to get to. The way that we focus on is by enhancing our performance, but of course it generates confidence.”
“It becomes a good habit. It improves the mentality, you know, it gives you a purpose, but we just focus on the performance, being better individually and collectively day in, day out, and then hopefully come 3pm on a Saturday, it comes to fruition.”
“Competition is good. As I’ve said the social chemistry is good, building blocks with how we want to play with the ball, against the ball on transition, set pieces, but now again, we we tune in the focus. We head in now to the last week of pre-season; two games to go, plenty of contacts on the training pitch, and we’ve just got to keep bringing it day in day out.”
“I’m excited to get in on Monday, go through this game and what we done well, even better if have a really good training session and then we go again Tuesday.”
