WORCESTER City created their own problems against Halesowen Town despite reaching the Worcestershire FA Senior Cup final.

Manager Carl Heeley felt his team were guilty of trying to walk the ball into the net at times during the semi-final clash at The Grove.

In the end, second-half goals from Mark Danks and Kevin O’Connor saw City progress after sub Emmanuel Ibhadon’s long-range strike had put the Yeltz ahead.

Heeley said: “I think at times, with the greatest of respect to Halesowen, it was too easy for us. We picked up every second ball and we over passed it too often and I think that comes with it being too easy at times.

“We caused our own problems a little bit but it doesn’t matter how many you win by. Just because they lost 8-0 on Saturday, that doesn’t give anybody a divine right to win games.

“We dominated possession for the whole of the game but we had to remind the boys at half-time that we weren’t training and it wasn’t 10 passes for a goal.

“We passed them to death but the final ball wasn’t good enough too often and that’s why we didn’t create many chances.”

He added: “Their goal was a fluke, the ball moved tremendously in the air and wrong-footed Dean Coleman. But once we got a goal there was only one team going to win it.

“We made hard work of it because we didn’t get the ball wide and get good quality into the box and didn’t create enough chances. But we’ve won and that’s the important thing.”

City will now face either Redditch United or Stourbridge, who meet on Tuesday, in the final and Heeley is keen to land the silverware.

“We are not going to discredit the competition, we want to win it,” the City boss said.

“We are in the final now and which ever team gets through we will approach that match with the aim of winning.

“It’s pointless entering the competition if you’re intention is not to go and win the trophy and that’s what we want to do.”

Centre-half Rob Elvins (calf), midfielder Gary Walker (hamstring) and left-back Neil Cartwright (back) were all rested to recover from injury.

Heeley added: “Ideally I would have liked to have left a few more out but I just haven’t got the numbers to do that.”