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Fleet cup hero eyes first round upset

Kezie Ibe believes the Fleet can cause an upset at Crewe
Kezie Ibe believes the Fleet can cause an upset at Crewe

Ebbsfleet's goalscoring hero Kezie Ibe believes his team have every chance of causing an FA Cup first round upset.

Ibe scored the only goal on Tuesday night as the Fleet won 1-0 at home to Woking in their fourth qualifying round replay.

And now the striker has set his sights on knocking out League 1 strugglers Crewe when they travel to Gresty Road on November 8.

"The thing about it is that it's a winnable game," said Ibe. "We can go there with confidence and enjoy the day.

"It's going to be hard not to think about that Crewe game every day now. We need to look forward to it and enjoy it."

Victory against Woking was made all the more sweet for the Fleet, after they fought back from 2-0 down within 10 minutes of the first game last weekend.

"It's a great feeling to come from where we did on Saturday - losing 2-0 - and to come here and go through was great," he added.

"We worked so hard in the first game and if we had lost the replay that would have been for nothing. We were all up for it because we knew the draw and what was waiting for us."

As for his goal, a brilliant strike that deserved to settle the tie, Ibe played down his role - and claimed he scored an even better one in training at the start of the week.

"To be fair I hit one a bit sweeter than that in training during the week, maybe that's why the manager started me.

"I don't know if it's the most important goal I've scored but it's right up there - but then again every goal is important to me.

"One of their defenders tried to head it and made a mistake, the gaffer is always saying to test the keeper so that's what I wanted to do even though I was quite far out - luckily I caught it well and it flew in."

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