Patrick Roberts, who has yet to make much of an impact at SAFC, asked to play for the U23s against Stoke City in a bid to up his match fitness. Alex Neil explained…
HARD WORK
"Patrick is working really hard. The biggest difficulty you have is when you sign someone and they have a lack of game minutes, because the simple fact is that we are now at the stage of the season where every game that ticks off, if they don't play, they arguably get further away rather than closer to fitness.”
MATCH FITNESS
"The problem you have is that when you are not fully-fit in the first place, the importance of every match becomes greater a