Johnstone's Paint Round Up

A great show from the clubs I write about last night. While I was sitting on the sofa watching the box instead of attending a game and watch from the Press Box, Swindon, Oxford and Cheltenham all progressed through to the next round with away wins.

Swindon notched up a win against Exeter thanks to a first half brace from on loan Birmingham striker Jake Jervis, 20, and then held on despite Daniel Nardiello pulling one back midway through the second period.

Jervis is with Swindon for one month and manager Paolo di Canio told the Swindon Advertiser:

“He comes from a top side in the Championship and he played a part in the game in the Europa League and that means the guy has talent.  He scored two goals and obviously he was happy. He probably could have scored three goals but he does not yet have the anger to score a third or fourth or fifth, but he is young and that will come.”

Oxford meanwhile pulled of a very good result against in form Aldershot who maybe have one eye on the League Cup game against Manchester United coming up in a couple of weeks.

Robbie Hall and Deane Smalley grabbed two second-half goals in the space of three minutes and even though Danny Hylton pulled one back for the home side it was too little, too late.

I was pleased for youngster Hall, 17, who is on loan from West Ham and has now scored three goals in five games, but I suspect that manager Chris Wilder will be happier that Smalley has now netted his first goal for the club. It was only four days ago that Wilder told the BBC that Smalley would prove a good long term acquisition for the club.

Wycombe bowed out of the JPT against lower league opposition Cheltenham and whatever I might written about this competition yesterday, Chairboys boss Gary Waddock obviously wasn't a happy man when he told the Bucks Free Press:

"There were opportunities given. How many took that opportunity? You saw it. I said quite a bit. That will remain in the dressing room. As I said on Saturday, it can't continue, and they know my feelings.  We can't defend like that and the scoreline could have been a bit more than what it was. We didn't deserve anything, especially if you defend that way - you're going to concede goals."

However, Robins manager Mark Yates was delighted with his team after seeing two goals from Darryl Duffy and one from Brian Smikle and he said:

""I thought we were excellent. The first 20 minutes we didn't start as well as we wanted to and after that we were superb. The whole group that travelled were fantastic. We left a few boys at home, but my squad's decent, we've made a few changes but we were excellent. Darryl's first goal was superb, but that's what he's about. All night he was a constant threat on the shoulder of defenders and he must have been a nightmare to mark he was outstanding, as were them all."

Winger Kevin Betsy pulled a goal back for Wycombe before Duffy sealed the win with his second.