Colchester United beat Southend United in big Essex derby

U's fans have their say on what was a memorable night, at the JobServe Community Stadium.

Jon

Real team performance. Managed the game well from start to finish and deservedly got the win. Pell, Wiredu and Nouble all fantastic.

Duncan Stonehouse

Huge credit to Mullins and Tisdale for pulling us out of trouble; made such a difference playing a goal scorer like Folivi, he just appears in the right place at the right time; what a difference it makes when you take your chances. Superb from each and every one of them tonight

Teddy Dwan

Outplayed outthought and outfought their rivals in the Essex derby. Just what every U's fan wanted and requested from their team. And they delivered. This was a big game and the lads showed up and were counted.

Tom Flint

Huge result and huge first half performance just when we needed it!! Southend didn’t offer a lot but we still had to get the result and every player played their part - all driven forward by a real captains performance from Pell! Well done lads!!

Stephen Adams

Brilliant 1st half - @Harrypell_7 outstanding - all we ever asked for - spirit & effort, passion & pride - now the club & infrastructure has to build & @ColU_Official should never been in this position again - lessons learned & we move forward #blueandwhitearmy #TogetherStronger

Adam Walker

So proud of my team tonight massive win. Fantastic solid performance from everyone on the pitch tonight up the u’s and one more reminder there’s only One team in Essex

Jeff Coates

Such a huge relief. An abomination of a season but what a great way to end it. Obviously the mathematics aren't settled yet but barring a wildly unlikely set of results we are safe.

Tristan Green

Loved the last two games something seems to have clicked hopefully more of the same for the last few games the u,s are making me smile again after a long hard season

Dave B

Mike Folivi really makes a difference with his movement showing a real predators instinct & gets more out of Frank who seems to relish a strike partner. Wasn't a pretty performance, but lots of grit and determination with Pell putting in a real Captains shift. Up the U's

Anthony Clachan

Excellent performance tonight from everyone thought defence and keeper was solid this should definitely keep us up from now up the U's!

Nick Burgess

Great result! Man of the match performance from Harry Pell who took the game to them tonight in more ways than one! Special mention for Tommy Smith as well who seems to have regained confidence recently and has been excellent.

Danny

Big win we wanted it more!

Chris Howlett

I watched Southend United fans dance on the Layer Road pitch on the 16th April 1990 as we got relegated, tonight I feel I can draw a line! Thank you

@Harrypell_7 @brendanwiredu @MichaelFolivi Good luck to Southend next year

Ben Harrison

From 1 to 11 all of them wanted it took everything that was good about Saturday into tonight special mention to Harry Pell with a goal, assist and all in all a proper captains performance, loved it!!!

m

Great that the team followed up Saturday's win with another accomplished performance. Still work to do but we'll worry about that in the morning!

Liam

It was the our biggest Derby game ever, and every single player done their bit in all but securing safety and send Southend into non league! Up the U’s

Matthew Tedder

Really happy with that performance we are surely safe now and probably relegated them lot so it's a good day

Ian

Overwhelming emotion is relief. Now to finish the job on Saturday and remove all doubt on what has been an utterly miserable campaign.

Steve Wright

What a difference since Tisdale & Mullins took over. The players look more determined, motivated & of course the 4-4-2 formation with 2 strikers has made all the difference. Hopefully we can put to bed the 4-2-3-1 play out from the back 'De-Souza' text book style & move forward.