Aji Alese grabbed his first career senior goal yesterday which played a vital part in securing us a point on the road before the international break. After the game he mentioned the group resilience to fight back from a losing position twice.
RESILIENCE
“Entertaining game overall, maybe we conceded a few too many chances at times but once we went 1-0 down and 2-1 down we showed a great resilience to get back into the game. We created chances, Clarkey scored, I remember Leon had a chance so overall we showed good resilience and fight to get back in the game.”
THE GOAL
“As soon as I hit it I knew it was in but obviously you have to wait for the ref or the lino to give the signal. As soon as I heard the whistle and saw him point to his watch I knew to turn around and celebrate.”
1ST SENIOR GOAL
“It was amazing. I’ve scored before at 23’s games and I get a goal here and there in training but it’s a different feeling when you’re scoring in front of how many fans and you’ve got our fans at the away end screaming.”
INCREASED GAME TIME
“I won’t lie it’s been difficult from not playing for a while to playing two 90 minutes I’ve been cramping a little bit but the lads around have made it a lot easier than it could have been so I have to say thank you to them.”
TEAM CHARACTER
“A lot of teams could’ve gone 2-1 down, seen that we had not too much of the ball, seen that they were playing well and said ‘maybe it’s not our day, we’ll take the 2-1 loss and go back home and get ready for the next game’ but we got on some fresh legs and created lots of chances and on another day we could have won the game so it just shows how we are as a team, the fight we have, resilience we have and attacking presence we bring.”
REST AND RECOVER
“Two weeks off, bit of time to rest and recover and get ready for Preston.”
