Haywards Heath Town's focus turns to FA Cup

Haywards Heath Town boss Lloyd Cotton is looking for his side to bounce back from their opening day league defeat in the FA Cup tonight.
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Cotton's men face Hanwell Town at Hanbury in the Preliminary round and will be looking to hti back after their 4-1 defeat to East Grinstead Town on Saturday.

And although Heath have done their research, Cotton is only worried about what his men do.

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Jerome Beckles and Samual Ogunseye battle for the ball on SaturdayJerome Beckles and Samual Ogunseye battle for the ball on Saturday
Jerome Beckles and Samual Ogunseye battle for the ball on Saturday

He said: "We have done our research as we always do, but we are going to concentrate on ourselves tonight mainly on how we deliver things and what we are going to do.

"For us every game is important whether it be league or cup - we are going to be going for everything this year."

Tom Gilbert is back in the squad while Tom Cadman misses the game through injury.

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And on the opening day defeat, were East Grinstead good, or Heath below bar? Cotton said: "It was a mixture of both. They have a very very strong side this season and they will do very well in this league. We didn’t turn up to the standards we set ourselves.

"We have worked on a lot of things this pre-season and I feel like we will implement them tonight. It didn’t quite go our way on Saturday but these things happen over the course of a season. We need to get ourselves together and go again tonight."

Heath make the short trip to Burgess Hill Town on Saturday.

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