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Van Egmond play down Jets finals hopes

SoccerNews in General Soccer News 13 Feb 2012

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Newcastle Jets coach Gary van Egmond is refusing to talk about finals football despite jumping to fifth on the A-League table on Saturday.

The Jets overcame a determined Melbourne Heart outfit 3-0 on Saturday thanks to goals from Jeremy Brockie, Ryan Griffiths and Michael Bridges.

It was the third win on the trot for the Jets and moved them above the Heart into fifth spot on the table on 28 points, but with six rounds remaining and a log-jam of teams from fifth down to ninth the Newcastle coach was unwilling to discuss finals football just yet.

“We will talk about one game at a time, that is what we will talk about,” van Egmond said.

“For us it is about the performance. We believe it should be of a certain standard; where we are controlling the mainstay of the match we are creating chances and recognising decisions. How we keep on getting better that is what this season is about. That is what it will always be about.”

“The fact that we are now showing more consistency and more confidence that has come from results.”

“We just have to keep working and keep our feet on the ground and we have been trying at training to rectify those areas and that is what it is all about – us getting better and better performance each week.”

What van Egmond was willing to discuss after Saturday’s clinical display was the fight his side showed in the first half after the Heart had the better of the game in the opening stages.

“The first half was not so comfortable. They really put some pressure and we really didn’t control the game as much as we’d of liked,” he said.

“What was good from that first half performance although we didn’t control the game we really fought for it and that is something that we haven’t done as well as we could have done previously.”

“I thought second balls, and 50-50s we were coming out with the ball and I was really pleased with that.”

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