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FA CUP FIRST ROUND REPLAY

YEOVIL TOWN 1, DARLINGTON 0

STEVE SOWDEN REPORTS FROM HUISH PARK

YEOVIL Town boss Gary Johnson admitted after this hard-fought victory that he had to give his players a few home truths during the interval following a disappointing first-half performance.

Tuesday night's 1-0 win over Darlington saw the very best and the not quite so good of Yeovil. It was very much a clichd case of a game of two halves.

The opening 45 minutes was virtually a non-event. Yeovil's typical passing play was missing, the players were not firing on all four cylinders and their attacking football lacked the familiar zest that has made the Glovers so pleasing to watch in recent years.

But a few words of wisdom from the gaffer in the dressing room over a cup of tea at the break certainly did the trick.

And Johnson said: "We were as poor in the first-half as we were good in the second.

"At half-time we had to say a few home truths because I felt we had a chance of going out of the cup and I don't want to out of the cup not playing our game.

"Once we did that we looked a terrific standard and we showed a lot of quality in the second-half."

The second period saw Yeovil come out of the blocks running and they slowly turned the screw on a resolute Darlington side which had obviously travelled the 330 miles down to Huish Park not to simply make up the numbers.

But it was one moment of quality that swung the game Yeovil's direction and that special moment belonged to Darren Way who was making his 200th appearance for the club.

Good build-up play from the Glovers saw Way, who was acting as skipper, receive the ball on the edge of the box in the 56th minute. He wormed and squeezed open a path and then sent a shot past keeper Sam Russell and into the net.

The celebrations were as good to match to the goal and the Yeovil fans in the 5,365 leapt as one to salute Way - the diminutive figure who has been such an integral part of the Glovers success.

And Johnson said: "It was a fantastic goal. Nobody works harder on his long range shooting than him and it's the FA Cup - it you had written the script beforehand you would have said Darren would have got the winner. That's the beauty of the cup competition."

Yeovil had already had a couple of chances in the second-half to have opened the scoring before Way's decisive shot.

The brilliant Paul Terry made a surging run down the right and into the box and was denied as he was about to pull the trigger on goal.

And then Gavin Williams produced one of his typical mazy runs and found Michael Rose in space on the left, but his knock back went agonisingly behind.

While Darlington's forays on the Yeovil goal were few, the Glovers - who do seem to up their game when shooting towards the Westland Stand terrace - looked dangerous on the break.

Another run by Terry saw him square the ball to leading scorer Phil Jevons whose snap shot went straight at Russell and out for a corner. And then Williams again weaved his way forward and following a quick one-two his shot was tipped over the bar by the under siege keeper.

The first-half was very different to the second - in fact it left a lot to be desired. The only moment of note came in the opening minute when Way sent over an excellent cross and Bartosz Tarachulski was at the far post to head home, only for the goal to be ruled out for off-side.

Jevons (twice) and Williams were bundled to the ground in separate raids, but no cautions were dished out by dismal referee Phil Joslin until the closing stages of the first-half when he booked Tarachulski.

Mr Joslin, however, made 'amends' in the pulsating second period when he booked a further five players - two of which were Yeovil's Paul Terry and Colin Miles.

The referee and his assistants had a bad night in which there were some questionable off-side decisions given or not as the case may have been, cast iron fouls went unpunished, the slightest touches were penalised, and the common sense factor of advantage was not always played sensibly.

The longer time went on the more nervy it became considering Yeovil's slender lead, but the Glovers looked in control of proceedings and although the poor refereeing of Mr Joslin did enrage the fans it was the name of Darren Way that was being shouted from the rooftops come the end. He is quality.