O'Leary made the difference says Smith

After this afternoon's game Ben Smith said he thought the arrival of Stephen O'Leary in the Hereford United midfield had made a lot of difference to the team.

"He made a real difference. I don't think you could have dreamt of having a better debut by scoring one and setting one up," Smith told BBC Hereford and Worcester.

"We played a slightly different formation and it worked really well.

"You can say it was a bit negative with just Steve (Guinan) up front but really we had three up front because we had Matt (Done) to push up on the left and Bradley (Hudson-Odoi) pushed right up on the right.

"Then we had three in centre of midfield against their two. We sort of snuffed them in there.

"I think the only real threat they had was from their wide players, their forwards weren't bad, but overall we passed the ball a lot better. We popped it around.

"We had a lot of options on the ball and I think that showed in the way we moved the ball around.

"It was a competitive game, it wasn't nasty. Both teams tried to play the game the right way."

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