Young squad turn a soggy away day into a statement the table will have to notice
A side with an average age of 22 won 3–1 on a pitch that looked like a ploughed field, and did it without their suspended captain.
The home crowd came for a grind. They got a first-half that belonged to the visitors’ press and a second that belonged to a teenager who had been on the bench last month.
Coach Idris Kane refused the word “project.” “They are in the team because they can play in this mud,” he said. The mud agreed.
Three points do not make a season. They do, however, make the next away list look less like a punishment.
