Glenvale manager calls on team to tighten up at the back after Demolition Cup defeat

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Glenvale boss Lewis McKim wished his team’s cup tie hadn’t beaten the weather after suffering a rare home defeat to Easterhouse.The in-form Paisley side’s Demolition Cup round two clash was the only game involving a WoSFL Renfrewshire team to avoid postponement as rain battered the region over the weekend.Facing off at Ferguslie Sports Centre on the synthetic pitch, the hosts found their stubborn opponents ready to battle as the two teams went into the half-time break at 1-1.The Glasgow club took advantage of some seriously slack Glenvale defending throughout the second half, with the visitors holding a 4-3 lead going into the closing stages.As manager McKim threw caution to the wind and put a centre-back up front to attack late on, Easterhouse exploited the space and bagged another two to clinch the available spot in round three.McKim was despondent with ‘Vale’s defending, insisting his team can’t rely on their strikers to keep bailing them out by outscoring their opponents.He told Renfrewshire Live Sport: “We’ve got no excuses.

Our defending was embarrassing and we paid the price for that.“They knew what they were doing, sat in and hit us on the break time and time again.

Fair play to them, they did deserve the win.“They worked ever so hard and we can have no complaints about the result whatsoever.“It’s a sore one for us to take but it’s a wake-up call for our players.

I think they thought they could just turn up and expect to win but it’s just not that simple.“Defensively we weren’t at it and that’s the story of our season so far.