Caldwell hails 'absolutely brilliant' Exeter City

Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell says his side's 4-1 win over Blackpool was "absolutely brilliant".

Having lost their opening game of the season, 1-0 at Doncaster Rovers, the Grecians began their home League One fixtures with an impressive victory.

The win was Exeter's biggest at St James Park since beating Accrington 5-0 in March 2023.

"I said to the players, this performance started on Tuesday morning when we were honest about the Doncaster performance," Caldwell told BBC Radio Devon.

"We fed back both ways, staff to players, players to staff and then throughout the week we have a process where we find a game plan and we find a way to go and play a very good Blackpool team.

"I thought we were by far the better team in every aspect of the game, and that's credit to the players, I thought they were absolutely brilliant."

Caldwell went into the game having admitted that his playing budget was now lower than at the start of the year.

But his side impressed in attack as they took a 2-0 lead in the first quarter of the game before adding two more goals after the break.

"We've got good players and the biggest disappointment last week was the they didn't really commit to what we wanted them to do and we looked a bit nervy," he said.

"All week we spoke about when we start the game on Saturday we want you to commit, we want you to make mistakes and there was mistakes but we react, our five-second fury when we lose the ball was outstanding.

"If I'm being really picky I thought we could have scored more goals we were that good playing through the first and second third of the pitch and just that bit of quality in the final third we could have scored even more

"I'm really happy with the team, but it's only one game and the beauty of football is you have to do it again and the euphoria and the joy of this victory will wear off very quickly and focus goes on recovery and in preparation for Cheltenham (in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday)."