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met by Catts who headed it against the bar. It bounced down and hit Brownhill who was facing the goal before bouncing into the net. Cue great rejoicing in our end and a chant of, “We’ve scored a goal! (x5).”
We immediately brought on McGeady for Honeyman and he really made a crucial difference with his runs and passes across to Asoro on the right. With nine minutes on the clock the momentum was with us and it was Catts again who forged the breakthrough. “Catts the Catalyst” suggested one of my neighbours afterwards. Asoro was fouled just outside their box on our right and Catts took the kick. He was clearly cooking something up and for once we made a success of a dead-ball situation when he hit it very low into the box and McGeady ran to meet it and shot low into the net. We brought Robson on for Ejaria, whom I thought had looked quite impressive. With a minute or so to go it looked like we’d got the equalizer but Fletcher’s close range shot was turned out well by Fielding in goal. Fletcher had his shirt over his head and he should’ve scored but all was not yet lost.
Four minutes of stoppage-time were welcomed with glee by our end and half-way through it we got that crucial goal and it was Asoro again from the right who was the creator. He got to the line and crossed with power before it hit a Bristol player, Pack as it turned out, and hit the net. Cue complete mania all around me. I’d earlier jokingly told the lads next to me that I was the lucky charm and as we jumped around shouting I reminded them of this. There was still
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