Duncan Barkes

We don't score a lot of goals from corners.

We started not to concede a lot of goals from corners and that's almost as important as scoring goals from corners and set pieces.

Their goal was a fluke.

It was a straightforward fluke.

People were being polite and I heard commentators saying that he picked his spot.

No, he didn't.

They did well to create the opportunity.

No two ways about that.

Terry Devlin will probably have conversations with John Massino and his colleagues in coaching about how the guy managed to free up enough space to pick out a decent cross.

He wasn't looking, I don't think, for the goal scorer.

Divine, wasn't it?

There was some confusion about who actually got it.

But he was in space.

And the idea that he decided to send a looping header beyond Schmidt to his left that went in off the bar and could very easily have hit the bar or gone over the bar or round the post because it was perfectly placed in the top corner.

But it was a loopy thing.

It was a loopy, tantalising, in times gone by, we would have called it a girly effort in terms of what the ball was doing.

It was innocuous, is a more scientific description of the effort on goal.

And it got the goal.

And I think nobody was more surprised than the goal scorer himself.

And suddenly we're 1-0 down.