Irvine Victoria boss hopeful cup victory can help league form as they look to climb the table
dailyrecord.co.ukIrvine Victoria gaffer Stuart MacDuff believes his players can kick on after picking up their first win of the season.The Vics eased past Pumpherston 5-0 in their South Region Challenge Cup first round clash in West Lothian at the weekend, setting up an enticing clash with West of Scotland Premier Division outfit St Cadoc’s in the next round.An Andrew Heaney strike was sandwiched in between an Alessandro Savarese double as the visitors had the game wrapped up inside the opening half hour.Jamie McBrearty added to the scoreline before the break before Heaney completed the rout on the hour mark.The West of Scotland Third Division club can take huge confidence from the result and performance, says MacDuff, as they head into the Marymass clash with Irvine Meadow on Friday night before looking to climb off the foot of the table.Speaking to the Herald, the boss said: “It gives us a big confidence boost and I think it was needed.
In the first half we probably should even have scored a few more. Their keeper’s been caught out a couple of times and given us goals but has actually made some great saves as well.“With the run of form that we’ve been in, we just needed a win.
We’ve got the Marymass game on Friday which all the boys are looking forward to. It’s always a big game and decent crowd.“Hopefully we can get a result and put in a performance and then kick on from there in the league.”He added: “We played some very good stuff in previous games and been unlucky.
Apart from the Threave Rovers game I actually think we deserved points in every game we’ve played but that hasn’t happened.“It was good for the lads to get the rewards of playing good football and sticking to what we have been asking them to do and get a positive result.
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