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Gateshead come back from 3-0 down to beat Yeovil 4-3 in one of the most surreal games you’ll see

Gateshead astonishingly come back from 3-0 down to beat Yeovil 4-3 in one of the most surreal games you’ll ever see.

Josh Sims, Junior Morias and Harvey Greenslade put the Glovers 3-0 up before half time, but no one inside Huish Park could have predicted what was to come in the second half.

The comeback started with Kyle Hurst giving the visitors hope in the 48th minute, with the deficit then cut to one by Frank Nouble 10 minutes later.

Gateshead’s Kain Adom made it 3-3 on the 73rd minute, and then stunned everyone with the winner in the eighth minute of stoppage time.

After the game, Gateshead’s players and staff went over to the 45 fans, making the 12 hour (719 mile) round trip all the more bearable.

The result means that Gateshead are up to 8th in the National League with 9 points after 5 games, Yeovil are 18th with 4 points.

As seen in the statement below… the morning after the game, Yeovil confirmed the sacking of Mark Cooper. They wrote:: “Yeovil Town Football Club can confirm that Mark Cooper has been relieved of his duties as First Team Manager.

“We would like to place on record our thanks to Mark for his commitment to this club through some very difficult times and also his achievements during his three years at Huish Park. We wish him every success in his future endeavours.

“In the interim, Richard Dryden will assume responsibility for First Team matters while the club begins the process of appointing a new permanent manager.

“We encourage all supporters to get behind Richard and the squad as we focus our attention on this weekend’s fixture against FC Halifax Town.”

Interviewer to Gateshead’s Alun Armstrong: “Alun, I think it’s probably going to be difficult to sum that up. It springs to mind that you said your heart rate was going after the end of the Tamworth game. I get the feeling that was probably a million times worse.”

Alun Armstrong: “That was the most surreal thing I’ve ever been involved in in football and I’ve been in the game for a hell of a long time.

“But to what was so bad in the first half, to how good they were in the second half, I’ve just said how we can go from one to another after a chat is not something I want to do again.

“But you’ve got to give the lads credit. I’m not one for shouting and screaming, that’s a certainty. I do like to speak to them properly, but probably were a little bit quiet, but half time even we were angry. And that’s the first time I’ve been proper angry.

“And they reacted. We had to a couple of changes and we discussed what we were going to do. A little tactical change and thankfully it paid off but I’ll still go back to that first half, it was atrocious after 10 minutes, it just collapsed and when I’ve said it before that we’re going to have a little bit of pain I wasn’t expecting it to be like that in the game and then but they’re so capable of so much more, people have seen it today they’re capable of so much more and it’s just when they concede a goal they seem to go on the shelves but that’s the young naive squad I’ve got at this moment in time and that’s why I’m saying we need a couple more experienced lads.

“As bad as we were in the first half, we were so good in the second off. But my heart was just horrific at the end of that game.

“I think it ended off on the pitch when we scored the fourth goal. As I say, I’ve never been involved in that and I’m just so delighted for them because them fans that have travelled this distance, let’s be honest, we’ve been here absolute madness doing two long distance games so close together but for them that must have been unbelievable.

“I was just so delighted for them because I was ready to apologise to every single one of them at half time for that performance but to get that you don’t get that much in football, you don’t get a lot of that in football so we’ve got to enjoy that.

Watch the full interview in the video below…

Yeovil boss Mark Cooper said: “I thought we were amazing in the first half. Obviously we spoke after the Braintree game about we have to score.

“I thought we were electric in the first half and scored three great goals. Could have scored more, possibly should have had a penalty. And the message at half time was, let’s go again, we need to replicate the energy. We need to replicate the desire, the press, and let’s go on, let’s go five or six.

“I think when you can see the first one after a couple of minutes by not being aggressive and sinking in and we have safety in numbers, then it affects the players mindset.

“They want to drop and defend what they’ve got and it’s not the way to do it. You have to be front foot and the message was half time, we have to be front foot. We can’t sit in and defend. We have to go and get after them again.

“And we didn’t, all the goals were individual mistakes. People not doing what they’re supposed to in terms of clearing the ball or stopping crosses, blocking shots, letting their man free in the box.

“So it’s a tough one to take after that.”

On the first half goals: Yeah, I can’t even remember. I just know that we played really well and we scored some really good goals.

“I can’t tell you what order they came in. So the fallout will be all about the second half, and rightly so because it’s about professionalism.

“We pride ourselves as a staff and a club on trying to be professional and making sure that we do our jobs properly and diligently in the second half.

“That just all went out the window and we didn’t do those jobs even though we still had a couple of chances to win it. At 3-3 Ben has a clean through, Morgan Williams has a header off the line.”

On the second half: “And as you say, they’re individual errors. guess when one goes in, you think, OK, it’s only one. Let’s game management, that kind of thing.”

On the message during the drinks break, midway through the second half: “Just keep going. Like I said, if you sit back, you invite deflections or crosses and you have to be aggressive and our message all along and all seasoners be front foot, let’s go and get after the teams we’re playing against. Players shrank into their shells in the second half.

“As a club, as a squad, as a staff, all together, we have to feel that and we have to make sure that that never happens again. Talk about feel there.

On chants of we want Cooper out after the third Gateshead goal went in: “I don’t know. Concentrate on the team. If you don’t win games, that’s what happens. If I’m a big boy, you have to take that on the chin. That’s what happens up and down the country. If you don’t win enough games.

“But the biggest frustration is we’ve played so well. As a manager and a coach and a staff, you set the team up to do what we did in the first half. That makes it even more frustrating for us.

“And when that happens you have to take it on the chin. We’ve just got to move on to Saturday and make sure we get a really good performance on Saturday. If we keep playing like we did in the first half and then we get to 60 minutes, then we’ll get some big results and that’s what we have to hold on to after the first half.”

Want to watch some vlogs of the game, take a look at these!

Here’s how fans reacted after seeing Gateshead come back from 3-0 down to beat Yeovil 4-3 in one of the most surreal games you’ll see…

@SimonJ1996: Something 1700 miles covered in last 7 days. It’s been tough to say the least. All worth it for moments like that 🫣😍🤣

@JackRobo1209: Must have been some half time team talk. Tiernan Brooks, Fenton John and Kain Adom all absolutely outstanding

@runningtrackgfc: Today’s victory is the best I’ve seen of Gateshead in a long time. 3-0 down at half time and somehow won. Incredible. Scoring four, with Telford injured is extremely impressive too. 9 points from 15 is no easy accomplishment either. Up the Heed.

@RyanBro11591296: WHOEVER DECIDED KAIN ADOM IS A WINGBACK AND NEEDED LOANED OUT SHOULD NEVER FUCKING WORK IN FOOTBALL AGAIN

@Connor_RiceyGFC: A Alun Armstrong half time team talk can make world peace

@nathancoulson98: Phenomenal from all involved in that second half. Genuinely incredible stuff. Love it.

@SamJenk77821788: Don’t know what alun said at half time but he must have the wisdom of fucking gandhi

@GedlingPie: 3-0 down at half time to then win 4-3 in the 98th minute… there MUST have been some insane limbs in that away end 😍

@DavidHindmarsh7: What a fucking club man 😍

@SBFGR21: What’s more shocking a mark cooper team scoring 3 goals or them bottling a 3 goal lead

@skyhigh20002: Losing a three goal lead and at home. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. No fight and no clue. Get the manager out now!!!!

@JoeWills387897: I agree with you all, todays game should be Mark Coopers last in charge after this result, and also the referee should serve a suspension as he did not do his job properly through putting too much added time on at the end of the game and robbing Yeovil of a point.

@steveseaby: Well done to Prabhu , Stuart, and Nicholas. Not easy to sack a manager this early, but certainly the correct decision. Mark simply wasn’t liked amongst the players and fan base. #COYG

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