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"It was a great three points against a good side who have been doing well. I am pleased with the clean sheet as well. It is good to get a clean sheet and it was thoroughly deserved. I thought the boys stuck to the task well and got a well deserved three points.
"I was a bit disappointed with the first 20 minutes of the second-half as we let them get on the front foot a little too much. Saying that, I thought we could have been more than one goal to the good on the first-half showing. Mark Bentley had a great chance in the second-half with a header. Mark gets in there and that is why I bought him to the club. He is good athlete who gets in various positions and comes up with the odd goal or two.
"We changed it around a little this week after seeing how well Carlisle did at Tranmere last week. I set it up a little bit different and, as everyone could see, in the first-half, we had numerous chances and caused them plenty of problems. I thought we went off the boil a little in the second-half but teams like Carlisle have been doing very well this season. They are going to have those stages in games when they put you under a bit of pressure. They are a good bunch of lads and they work extremely hard for Neil McDonald. They are not an easy side to play against so to get three points off of Carlisle, you know they are deserved.
"Kelvin Jack came back in and did well. He gives a nice presence at the back with the size of him. You wouldn't want to argue with him. He pulled a great save off at the end after a good through ball from one of their lads. He stood up well and he is a big target to get past."
On his second-half substitutions Jepson said :
"I just thought we were getting over-run a little bit. Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu was looking a little tired and you know how Gary Mulligan never stops running. I thought 'Mullers' down the middle with Matty Jarvis would inject a little more pace and with Carlisle pushing forward, I thought we could catch them on the counter-attack. I thought we deserved a second goal. We did that in the end with Matty and Mulligan got the deserved goal. That worked well. It is great when it works but when it doesn't, you sometimes end up with egg on your face.
"I have yet to see the Mark Bentley one on the video. I don't know if he has tried to help it in or it just skimmed his head. You'd back him on them all day long there. I thought bringing the two defenders on to shore it up, we could then counter and get Matty away, which we did.
"Ben Chorley is a good lad. He has a good presence and goes about it in the right way. He can play in midfield or at centre-half, as he has shown for Milton Keynes Dons. I decided to put him in front of the back four. He gets in there, is good in the air and he can pass the ball well. He is a good addition to the squad.
"I was pleased with the bench I could put out today. We had two strikers, Alan Pouton, and a couple of defenders in Ben and Danny Jackman, who give a lovely balance on the left-side as we don't have too many left peggers at the football club. It is nice to be able to bring 'Jacko' on out there as it is natural to him."