'Professional' Torquay United keep up title pressure
Torquay United kept their National League South title hopes alive with a "professional" 2-0 win over 10-man Slough Town. The victory kept the Gulls fourth in the table, three points off leaders Truro City with three games to play. Torquay travel to Truro on Good Friday, 19 April, in a key game in the title race.Slough had Guy Hollis sent off after 28 minutes for a reckless challenge on Cody Cooke.Torquay got their breakthrough in the fifth minute of first-half stoppage time as Cooke fired the hosts ahead a few minutes after Jay Foulston had hit the bar.Matt Jay made the game safe 13 minutes after half-time as he dinked the ball home to cap a dominant performance. "To score two goals and keep a clean sheet is always nice," Wotton told BBC Radio Devon."We started the game really positively, we could have scored more goals arguably, but that's the only negative I would say."I thought we controlled the game first half and then when they went down to 10 men, controlled it even more."So all in all, I thought it was a very professional performance from us."The victory came after a 2-1 loss at home to mid-table Chesham United last week, in which Wotton was unhappy with how his side acquitted themselves. But he says he saw an improvement against Slough - something they will need to keep up if they are to get a result at his former club Truro."I thought we looked physically strong, which was pleasing because, although I still think we should have won the Chesham game, I didn't feel that way last week," Wotton added."So maybe the boys have had a kick up the backside that they needed"But today was important that we won because nothing's changed - we had four games to go, now we've got three games to go and we're in exactly the same position as we were before and we've obviously got a monster game coming up."
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