Daly’s double helps complete a happy Easter for Leamington

Brakes have certainly got the wind in their sails after five successive league victories.
Matty Dodd slides home Brakes third. MHLC-01-04-13 Brakes Banbury Apr10Matty Dodd slides home Brakes third. MHLC-01-04-13 Brakes Banbury Apr10
Matty Dodd slides home Brakes third. MHLC-01-04-13 Brakes Banbury Apr10

Four of those have come at the home and Paul Holleran believes the exposed nature of the New Windmill is something visiting teams struggle to come to terms with.

Banbury were the latest team to fail to utilise the elements after restricting Leamington to a single-goal lead at the break.

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And Holleran says having a stiff breeze at your backs is not always the advantage it appears.

“With the wind blowing it’s a difficult place to play and the players here have learned how to handle it,” he said.

“You’ve got to get the ball in the right areas and use diagonals.

“When we turned around they didn’t always adapt to it and a lot of balls tended to run through to Laurie Walker.”

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Holleran was disappointed not to have had more to show from a dominant first half.

However, despite Banbury being in the ascendancy for 15 minutes after the break, he was delighted with his side’s response.

“Even though we didn’t play well in that spell we kept them at arm’s length and finished nice and strong, the same as at Cambridge.

“And when games open up, we’ve got players to exploit it and ask people questions.”