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Higgins pleased with Coleraine's defensive efforts
Coleraine manager Ruaidhri Higgins says he is pleased that his side are limiting their opponents' goalscoring opportunities as the Bannsiders prepare to put their unbeaten start to the season on the line at home to Dungannon Swifts on Tuesday night.A late Joel Cooper goal gave Higgins' team a 1-0 win over Larne in their Premiership opener at Ballycastle Road and his side kept another clean sheet in achieving a 0-0 draw away to Cliftonville on Saturday. "In the two games we've been involved in we've given up very little in terms of chances, which is really, really pleasing," the Coleraine boss told BBC Sport NI."Between both boxes we were excellent [against Cliftonville]. It's not often you see teams coming to Solitude and dominating the ball as much as we did."The disappointing thing for me was our final pass, cross or set-piece delivery wasn't on the money and we know we've got special players who will make that happen. But in terms of our general performance, happy with a lot of it."Coleraine will face a Dungannon team who have had a disappointing start to their campaign - going down 3-0 to Linfield and 4-1 to Portadown."We know that Dungannon are a smashing team, it's only the start of the season, and it will only be a matter of time before they find their feet."They'll be a really good side I've no doubt, I just hope they wait until after Tuesday night!".The former Derry City manager is confident that he has a squad which can make a big impact this term."We know we're going to get better and I'm very confident that we're going to build a really good team here."We're aggressive in how we go after teams. It's not always going to be perfect but we have an approach that we want to take and I think the players have adapted to that really well."
