Drennan delight as six game drought ends

On Friday evening Shamrock Rovers returned to winning ways with a 5-1 mauling of a struggling Sligo Rovers side at Tallaght Stadium. After the game, the Hoops attacker Mikey Drennan spoke to Extratime.ie about his sides performance.

“I was very happy with the performance,” said Drennan, “especially with the second half. I think we showed good team togetherness to win the game especially after we let a goal in which was a bit sloppy but it was good character to get the three other goals.”

The 21-year-old Kilkenny native was also pleased how his side bounced back after they suffered their first defeat of the season, seven days previously against local rivals St. Patrick’s Athletic 2-1 in the second round of the Irish Daily Mail FAI Cup.
 

“Definitely this last week was disappointing and it was hurting - all week we were in training doing high tempo drills, scoring goals and lucky it paid off today. It can’t only be today - it needs to be every week, every game and hopefully we can do that Monday (home to Derry) and Friday (away to Bohs) and get six points going into the break.”

After suffering a run of six games without a goal, the former Portsmouth and Carlisle United attacker was happy to see his name among the goalscorers and he also revealed how playing along Brandon Miele is a huge factor for his success. The pair have played together for Ireland at underage level.

“I felt happy, but it was more of a relief than anything that it finally went in because I haven't really been getting much chances and it's been frustrating. But I have Brandon [Miele] behind me and we know exactly what we’re going to do. He knows what I’m going to do while I also know what he’s going to do, as we set each other up today and scored two goals each.”

Miele’s influence in the Drennan’s first goal was evident after the 20 year old treaded a lovely weighted ball behind the defenders which allowed Drennan to race in behind before calmly slotting the ball beyond Richard Brush in the Sligo goal.

“It was a quality ball. That’s when he knows exactly when to play the ball - he took one look up and played me in that shows the class that he has.”

Minutes later Drennan found himself with an opportunity to add to his first goal of the game from the penalty spot and he sent Brush the wrong direction.

“I had an idea that he thought I was going to go the other way, to his left. So I said I’d go to the right and I was happy with it!”