After Welling United won their second game in four days, Assistant Manager Hugo Langton was happy to claim three points, even if Welling weren’t at their most fluent.

“The record books will show one thing. They will show Welling one Whitehawk nil.” He said “The history books don’t show facts, figures, performances. They just show the result and sometimes in football it’s all that really matters.

“Don’t get me wrong, it would be nice to play total Dutch football or play like Barcelona but football’s not like that. Whitehawk got battered on Saturday and they demanded a reaction and their players made it difficult for us.

“The fact of the matter is, they couldn’t break us down, we broke them down once, so we’re happy with that. It’s two clean sheets on the trot, eight points from twelve and those sort of games like that, you take your three points all day long.

“There’ll be other days when we play teams off the park, like Bath, and we don’t get the points so over the course of the season it tends to even itself out. Don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of room for improvement but it will come.”

He went on to say: “The players out there have tried to do the right things, they’ve tried to make things happen. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t. Before we went to Bath the team was getting a lot of criticism. We were aware of it but we went to Bath and we put in a great performance.

“We put in a good performance at Braintree and we’ve come back to Park View Road and we’ve got six points. The games that we have lost, we’ve lost by one goal. We’re showing signs of improvement every week and how the last four games have gone, I’m really pleased.”

On the injuries he said it was too soon to know how Harry Phipps would react having gone off injured in the Whitehawk game but he had updates on Tom Bradbrook and Bradley Goldberg

“Both could possibly be back in training next week.” he said. “How it has to work, it’s the same with Ian Gayle. They need to have a week of running and training with no pain. Ian Gayle’s back to there now. Tom’s confident he’ll be back next week and Bradley possibly.” However, he confirmed that Pierre Joseph-Dubois is yet to have the ‘pain free week’.

Now Welling can prepare for the F.A. Cup match with Haringey Borough on Saturday in confident mood.

Pictures supplied by Dave Budden.