Dominic Solanke
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Ah, Dom, you had your backs firmly against the wall there.
How much belief, how much fight did it take to turn that round?
Yeah, a lot.
I think it was a game of two halves.
The first half was difficult.
Couldn't get near them at times.
But, yeah, we've seen it a few times this season where the second half is a different story.
And I think in the second half we were great and grew with confidence and belief throughout the half and could have even gone on to win it.
So, yeah, we know that we need to try to start games quicker because obviously the first half wasn't good enough.
But the reaction in the second half was great.
So what was said and done then at half-time to turn that?
Obviously a few tactical tweaks.
It's obviously quite difficult in the game to get all the information in, but obviously half-time we have a chance to do that.
But yeah, I think second half, like I said, we had to come out and show fight and belief and that's what we did.
And a change of shape as well?
I mean, I presume that the manager and the rest of the team actually didn't want to lose your captain, but getting you a bit more support up there, did that help?
Yeah, for sure.
I think, like I said, we needed to change something because it was very difficult to press in the first half.
They had a lot of bodies deep and we couldn't quite get close to them, like I mentioned.
But yeah, obviously we made that change in formation in the second half and it worked well.