Roche hungry for more goals
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Longford Town’s Lee Roche hopes he can start banging in the goals after scoring his first goal in over three months against midlands rivals Athlone Town on Saturday night.
Roche scored a wonderful goal from about 35 yards out in the 1-1 draw. It has been a frustrating season so far for him in front of goal and he knows that it’s something he has to improve on. “Personally I need to score more goals, there is no doubt about that. Everyone in the club knows that. Everyone is egging me on. Hopefully when I’m doing that, we’re winning. Though if we win and I don’t score, I don’t mind. In training I constantly score. I don’t know what it is. At the moment I’m probably not getting the luck that I need. I want to score goals,” he told extratime.ie.
Although pleased to finally get on the scoresheet, he was disappointed that Longford Town couldn’t hold on and get the win. He said, “In the end the goal wasn’t good enough, it wasn’t enough for us. I’d rather score an easy one and win 2-1 than score one like that and draw. It’s like a loss at the end of the day.”
He added, “We just didn’t play well. We made a few chances but just weren’t good enough on the day. Athlone matched us all the way through and they probably wanted it a bit more than us and that’s how they got a draw out of it.”
After losing their previous two league games Town needed to get something out of the Athlone game; the win should’ve and could’ve been achieved. Manager Tony Cousins wasn’t happy with his team’s performance after the game and made his feelings known. Roche said, “He was 100% right. Tony is very frank and tells everything as it is. He won’t lie to anyone. He just told us at the end of the game we weren’t good enough. Not in those words though. Even though we played bad we had a few clear-cut chances; I had two. If we had put them away no one would’ve talked about the game. We are not killing teams off.”
Comparing the Town’s results in the first series of games to the second, they have dropped five points; losing to Meruve and drawing with Athlone – two games they had won in the first series. Roche admitted that some of the performances in the last few games weren’t good enough. “We have no problem playing against the top teams. It’s just when we are playing against the lesser teams we need to up our game a bit more. We’re probably going in thinking it’s going to be easy where they raise their game. It’s not good enough on our behalf.”
Roche scored a wonderful goal from about 35 yards out in the 1-1 draw. It has been a frustrating season so far for him in front of goal and he knows that it’s something he has to improve on. “Personally I need to score more goals, there is no doubt about that. Everyone in the club knows that. Everyone is egging me on. Hopefully when I’m doing that, we’re winning. Though if we win and I don’t score, I don’t mind. In training I constantly score. I don’t know what it is. At the moment I’m probably not getting the luck that I need. I want to score goals,” he told extratime.ie.
Although pleased to finally get on the scoresheet, he was disappointed that Longford Town couldn’t hold on and get the win. He said, “In the end the goal wasn’t good enough, it wasn’t enough for us. I’d rather score an easy one and win 2-1 than score one like that and draw. It’s like a loss at the end of the day.”
He added, “We just didn’t play well. We made a few chances but just weren’t good enough on the day. Athlone matched us all the way through and they probably wanted it a bit more than us and that’s how they got a draw out of it.”
After losing their previous two league games Town needed to get something out of the Athlone game; the win should’ve and could’ve been achieved. Manager Tony Cousins wasn’t happy with his team’s performance after the game and made his feelings known. Roche said, “He was 100% right. Tony is very frank and tells everything as it is. He won’t lie to anyone. He just told us at the end of the game we weren’t good enough. Not in those words though. Even though we played bad we had a few clear-cut chances; I had two. If we had put them away no one would’ve talked about the game. We are not killing teams off.”
Comparing the Town’s results in the first series of games to the second, they have dropped five points; losing to Meruve and drawing with Athlone – two games they had won in the first series. Roche admitted that some of the performances in the last few games weren’t good enough. “We have no problem playing against the top teams. It’s just when we are playing against the lesser teams we need to up our game a bit more. We’re probably going in thinking it’s going to be easy where they raise their game. It’s not good enough on our behalf.”
