Mikey Antonio – having scored his first goal since New Year’s Day – was ultimately left frustrated with the FA Cup result against Saints but refusing to look on the downside for long.
It may have been the simplest goal he has ever scored but it was badly needed after a couple of games now where he looked likely to find the net.
The reality is however that we are now out of the two domestic Cup competitions and looked more like the pre Wolves team as Moyesie decided to go with a near strength team.
It seemed inevitable that the number of games would eventually catch up with the guys but it was a disputable VAR penalty that changed the game via an awkward challenge from Craig Dawson which wasn’t necessarily a foul.
However, the team have to accept it and afterwards Mikey spoke of a game which was deeply disappointing for us all.
He told www.whufc.com: “Obviously we wanted to go further in this competition and now we’ve got to do is concentrate on what we are in now, and that’s the Europa League and the Premier League.
We’re still going for the top four, so with all the negatives that have happened today, we’ve got to think about the positives for the season.
We’ve got the top four chase still and we’re in the last 16 of the Europa League. Let’s just see what we can do with those and keep moving forwards. Onwards and upwards.
I’ve been saying it over the last couple of weeks that I feel like a goal’s been coming.
I worked quite hard for the team against Wolves and managed to get the assist, so I said it was coming – I could feel it.
I managed to get the goal today so hopefully this goal can get me on a nice little run to finish off the season.
The fans were unreal. They helped lift us to get the goal. Even when we went 2-1 down, they were still singing our names, so the fans were unreal and I’d give them applause for that.
Thanks for turning out and hopefully we can do you guys proud on Saturday.
One thing about us is that nothing knocks us down. We don’t stay down. We get up and we go again.
It’s a big game on Saturday. It’s a game to show how we stand in the league, and basically stand our ground – to show that we’re there for the rest of the season.
