Sat Jan 18, 2025 6:30 pm
TOM RAMASUT:
“We’ve built a real togetherness and resilience in the squad. I think we’ve seen that over the last six games now unbeaten.
There are players here who’ve played many derbies now, and they understand what it means for the Club, the fans and the whole city; I think we saw that today.
We had a gameplan going into it. It was pretty cagey at the start; in the first 20 minutes we probably gave them a bit too much time on the ball, and we made a few tweaks to our defensive shape that allowed us to get a little bit more pressure onto them.
There was real momentum there and a real belief going into the second half, knowing they just had to keep building on what they had done in the game up to that point. And again, a little bit like the last previous five or six games, if you show that sort of fight and that togetherness, we've got plenty of quality in the dressing room then to go and win games.
Callum Robinson is our talisman at the minute. We see it in training every day, his finishing is top draw. Whether they're tight touches and finishes, or whether it's first time, he's got everything in the locker.
There's plenty of quality in that dressing room to go and put the icing on the cake and finish teams off to score the goals, like you saw from Callum Robinson and Dimi [Goutas] today.
It's been an extremely, extremely difficult week. I think what's been such a warming feeling is the support that Omer's had from the players, all the staff and the togetherness that we've shown. I'm sure he has taken a lot of comfort from that.”