Eric Kinder spoke to us about the FA Youth Cup victory over York City:

"I believe you have just spoken to Greg and we got a little bit of criticism last night at first team level for the way we played, the way we passed, the way we dealt with things. But we are through to the next round of the FA Cup and it is the same with us. I have come up here and the lads are asking when I am going to be pleased?

I am a bit frustrated with the second half performance. They played exactly how I thought they would and it is near enough the same side that I watched on Saturday, we knew their strengths and we knew their weaknesses. I thought that in the first-half we dealt with it really well, we got ourselves 2-0 up, we go back in the dressing-room at half-time and I said that they will come back at us again.

So, I told them just keep the right tempo going and that we would be fine, but we never got our tempo going at all in the second half. I am experienced enough to know that they we would let them back into it if we didn't sort of ourselves out, and that's exactly what happened. Fair play to the lads, after we gave them a sniff we closed up shop and we did fine after that.

All goals come at vital times but it is good to get yourselves 2-0 up right on half-time. Mind you, 2-0 is a very strange scoreline. It is a funny one and it's one that I don't like ... but I'd take it every game if we were leading by two goals at half time. But the next goal is always critical because if you get it, then you kill the game off. Nobody comes back from 3-0 really at youth team level, especially with 35 minutes left to play. It's very rare as they usually cave in by then.

They got their goal and it caused a bit of a panic, but we held on. I am not completely 100% delighted with what has happened, but I am delighted that we have achieved our aim of getting through to the third round of the Youth Cup.

It was a great finish from Manny Richardson. I took a bit of stick from their coach because he thought we should have kicked the ball out when their injured player was down. But their goalkeeper had a chance to kick it out, and he didn't, so we don't think we have too much to answer to.

To be fair I didn't even know their man was down, but if it happened to us I wouldn't have been complaining. So, Manny has got through, he has poked it into the corner and it is a good finish. Then Ben McKenna's back-post finish right on half-time gave us a great chance to win the game.

It is hard at the very highest level when you concede towards the end of the game and there are still 15 minutes left. At international level the team who concedes are usually on the back-foot then, but to be fair I felt that we dealt with it OK. I thought we actually dealt with it a lot better than I thought we would have done. I thought we would have got pressed back and pressed back, but we didn't. We stuck to it and at the end we ran time out pretty well.

I have asked them to stay together, it is a big thing I have had with them. Over the last few months I think we are not as together as past teams. We have worked on that and we have had a look at a few things, but credit to the captain Liam Davison. He shouldn't have played tonight if I am being really honest, he has missed ten days and his ankle is bad, but he has battled through. I thought him and James Wood were absolutely terrific and both of them are carrying injuries, so they deserve a pat on the back.

To be honest I didn't agree with the things that Steve Torpey said ahead of kick off. He said we were very direct and very physical. I think if you looked at their tackling tonight, they are a physical side and they have done nothing wrong by the way, I just thought they really tackled hard and they hit the frontman as fast as they could.

We get accused of being a direct side and I can't quite get my head around that one. We have a centre-forward who, if he gets away from people, then he scores one against one. So, if we have got the quality to drop the ball over the back of defences, then why not?

We will have to be a bit better against Stoke than we have been tonight. Again, we were better tonight than we were against Accrington, a lot better. Then we will have to step it up again against Stoke if we have got any ambition of going through and getting into the fourth round.

But this is a good opportunity against a Premier League club that is just starting out, building an Academy to try to match the big boys. So, it will be interesting, if I can get down to watch them I will, but it will be very difficult. I will have to rely on my good friends at Blackburn Rovers to give me a report on Stoke. It was the beauty of us being called off on Saturday that I got a chance to go across to Durham and watch York play Hartlepool.

We knew the quality of set-piece that they were going to swing under Mark Gillespie's crossbar. I thought with the exception of just a couple in the first-half, I thought he dealt with it really well. They swung it under and they piled people onto him and I thought with the exception of the goal, which Sean Law has put his hand up and said that he lost his man, I thought that we defended set-pieces very well."

United - Gillespie, Wood, Swinglehurst, Law (Bonner 90), Richards-Everton, Cleary, McKenna, Davison, Bowman, Richardson, Osmond (Towler 81). Subs - Ball, Reid, Cahill.