BURY respect teams but don’t fear them says assistant boss Tim Lees.

The Shakers head to Garforth Town on Saturday in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup in confident mood following a double winning Bank Holiday weekend.

It is the third time Bury have faced higher league opposition in this year’s competition having already beaten Congleton Town and Avro and Lees says they are ready for the challenge.

Bury go in to the tie with confidence sky high after following up Saturday’s 3-1 win against Maghull in the FA Vase with a 3-0 victory against Cheadle Town on Monday to remain unbeaten in NWCL Premier Division after six games.

While the league is the main focus, Lees says the cup competitions are important.

“We are taking confidence from beating a couple of teams from the league above,” Lees told the club website.

“To be completely honest, every single game we want to win. Obviously, we have priorities and the league is the priority for us. FA Cup, FA Vase are really important so we will go with a strong team and give it everything we have got.

“We respect every team but we don’t play with any fear. We believe if we can impose the way we want to play on the opposition, we will give ourselves a chance in any game.”

Alex Cherera scored twice against Cheadle - his first league goals of the season - while Reuben Jerome was also on target in front of a crowd of 2,744 at Gigg Lane.

Lees was impressed with the performance and believes there is more to come from the striker.

“Alex is Alex, his greatest strength is his unpredictability and that is what we love about him,” he added.

“He has got areas where he has to get better at in terms of tactically.

“I think he is really buying in to it, he is really open-minded as an individual. I think he has potential, if you look at his athleticism and his raw ability and his ability to go one v one.

“That unpredictability is massive especially with the way we want to play.”

Looking back on the Cheadle game, Lees said he was impressed with Bury’s display once they got to grips with the visitors tactics.

“They came with a game plan, really well organised, particularly first half, I thought they caused us a few problems,” he said. “Once we got control, I thought we built the game really well and the second half I thought we were excellent.

“The first few games we were quite open in terms of how we were playing, scoring loads of goals, creating loads of chances but it was a bit transitional, a bit of a basketball game, a bit end to end.

“What we are working on more is more control over the games in terms of staying high in the opposition half so we can constantly counter press, so we can win the ball back so we can keep attacking and I think second half was excellent – loads of regains, we were constantly winning the ball back high from really good positioning and to be honest, I thought we could have had a couple more in the second half.”