Richie Wellens hails Josh Koroma for ‘great finish, great goal' in Plymouth win

North Wales Chronicle

19 hours ago

Koroma latched on to a brilliant first-time volleyed through ball from Ollie O'Neill before running on to send a superb angled finish past Argyle goalkeeper Luca Ashby-Hammond and into the far corner.
Home protests of offside were waved away by officials.
Wellens said: 'It's something we want to do better – when we press high and we win the ball high we can play the ball forward quickly. It was a great pass for the goal and a great finish.
'Josh Koroma composed himself well, kept the defender at arm's length and always knew what he was doing: great finish, great goal.
'It was a professional performance from us. It's a difficult place to come, a long way to come.
'It was a long day yesterday travelling down and today's been a long day so you are not always going to see flowing football and total control.
'But I think we controlled certain areas of the game and we are playing against a relegated club from the Championship and they are expected to be right up there.
'Apart from the first 15 to 20 minutes where they were on top I thought we made quite a few chances and could have scored a couple more goals.
'I am proud of my players second half because they (Plymouth) made a lot of unforced errors and I think that was down to the way we pressed them and our work rate.'
Argyle boss Tom Cleverley said: 'You can probably tell my body language I am not as burning angry as I was on Saturday.
'I saw a group of guys who were focused, were organised were trying their best.
'We just fell short, that is where we are at, at the minute.
'The Lincoln and the Barnsley performances were similar in that we offered attacking threat but conceded three really soft goals.
'The Bolton and Leyton Orient performances were similar in that we looked a bit more solid and in control but just in that final part were just a bit off it tonight.
'Putting the two performances together is what we are striving for before we can complete.
'Alex Mitchell has come in and made us look more solid. I was pleased with his debut and there were some positives to take out today. I though (Ayman) Benarous was fantastic making his first league start for us.
'Having watched the goal on the small monitor next to me it looked like a good decision. I will have to watch it back, it was a small screen and obviously in the heat of the battle. It just looked like one that maybe we couldn't complain about.'