“This is the perfect game for us to react”: AFC Fylde boss excited by FA Trophy tie
Craig Mahon believes AFC Fylde’s FA Trophy tie this afternoon is the ideal way to bounce back from league defeat last time out.
Seven days on from losing at Oxford City, the Coasters play Southport at Mill Farm in round five.
The teams go into the game after midweek postponements as Fylde’s trip to South Shields and Southport’s home game with Buxton were both called off.
Speaking to Fylde’s media team, Mahon said: “Following Saturday, the manner in which we lost, I think this is the perfect game for us to react.
“We’ve been very fortunate this year that every time we’ve lost a game, the lads have always reacted in a really positive way and a really professional way.”
It will be the second time the teams have met this season, following on from the Coasters’ 3-2 win on August Bank Holiday Monday.
Mahon added: “We went watching them against South Shields a couple of weeks ago and I was really impressed by their tenacity, hunger, desire to win the ball back.
“They’ve brought some really good players in as well, they’re a completely different outfit from when we first played them.
“I look at us from the first time we played them and I feel like we’re a completely different team.
“I think we have a completely different dynamic to us now and I think we understand each other a lot better.
“I think they’re going to come here and give us everything they’ve got but I’m just expecting the lads to go back to basics, do what they’re good at and, hopefully, the fans will be in for a good game.”