COLCHESTER United manager Aidy Boothroyd hailed the bottle of Kevin Lisbie to take and convert two penalties after missing a first.

Stuart Watson

COLCHESTER United manager Aidy Boothroyd hailed the bottle of Kevin Lisbie to take and convert two penalties after missing a first.

Lisbie put his first penalty over the bar but then converted twice from the spot either side of half-time to give Colchester a deserved 2-0 victory over Hartlepool.

Boothroyd, following his first home match in charge, said: I thought they were definate penalties. You've got to have bottle to take a penalty and if Kevin had wanted to give it to someone else after his miss it would have been fine with me."

He added: "Ben (Williams) had to make a couple of good saves early on and I thought he did very well to keep us in it.

"After that we got the penalty and caused them a few problems, but on another day we could have been 1-0 down. We knew they would be a threat on the counter attack so it was far from comfortable.

"It has been an eventful first few weeks, we've had two stretchered off and now three penalties so who knows what else is going to come!"