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Wrexham's Palmer digs deep on 'emotional night'
Ollie Palmer has reflected on a "special" and "emotional" night that will rank highly in a Wrexham career that many believed was beat Hull City in an EFL Cup first-round thriller after substitute Palmer's two stoppage-time headers sent the tie into a penalty shootout, which the Dragons won 33, is in the final year of his contract at Wrexham and his substitute's appearance against Hull was his first competitive fixture since early February."Tonight was a special night for sure," Palmer told BBC Sport Wales."Bar the National League promotion and maybe one or two other big moments, I think this is probably top two, top three.
"It was just an emotional night after missing games through February, March and April."Doing so much for the first two thirds of the season and then missing out in the last 16 games was obviously tough, but that's football."You've got to dig deep and you've got to do what you can to help the football club in any way."Wrexham had to dig deep after it seemed they were heading out of the competition – 3-1 down with the game into stoppage time when Palmer struck twice."It's something that we've always done at this football club," added Palmer, referencing games against Dover Athletic and Barnet at the Stok Cae Ras when Wrexham scored late goals."We've always had that never-die spirit and that comes from the community, that comes from the fan base and comes from everything that's inherited with this football club."We've got to expect the subs to make impacts, whether it's in the National League, League Two, League One or the Championship or cup competitions and it was that that happened tonight."It was unfortunate to go 3-1 down, but obviously then fight and dig deep and come back into the game like we've always done at the Racecourse, to draw the game and we were clinical for the penalties."
Palmer converted one of Wrexham's five penalties in the shootout which secured their place in the second round of the has a year remaining on his current Wrexham deal, although he has fallen down the pecking order of attacking options in recent Palmer himself still believes he has a lot to offer in the Championship, especially with summer recruit Kieffer Moore currently out with an ankle injury."My game doesn't really change in terms of physicality and how we use big lads in our team," Palmer said."We've got many strings to the bow, but I think having a big lad and someone on the end of crosses, you know, is important."And I think in this league, there are centre halves that are there to be bullied."Kieffer Moore's great at doing that. He's definitely an experienced Championship player and he gets a lot of joy with his size and strength."It's the physicality which is my strength and I feel like I can impose that on centre-halves at any level."It's just a privilege to be a part of this football club."
