Edwards points the way forward
Monday, 14th Mar 2022“We need to pick ourselves up for two huge games coming up at home. We really have to take maximum points from those two games.
Dunfermline Athletic’s match at Hamilton on Saturday was full of incident and 21 year old defender Josh Edwards found himself involved in two penalty appeals. The first in the second minute of time added on at the end of the first half and the second just seven minutes into the second half.
Both incidents involved Ellis Brown, the 20 year old signed by Hamilton from Boreham Wood in January. Speaking after the match Josh gave his account of the two penalty claims:-
“Personally I thought they were both penalties. At the first one I was running through on goal. I was full pelt and the boy stood on my foot. My foot got stuck and that is why I have fallen over, I couldn’t do anything about it. In my opinion it was a stonewaller and I would have got a free shot at goal, I was one on one with the keeper.”
Unfortunately match referee Greg Aitken did not see it that way and yellow carded Josh for simulation. Fortunately the next time he did point to the penalty spot. Josh continued:-
“Then at the second one, Dan (Pybus) put in a great ball and I have just run in between them. I was going to get there to head the ball in the net and he has just put his two arms over my shoulder and brought me down. In my opinion both were a penalty but obviously the ref only saw the second one as a penalty.”
Josh has played every minute of the Pars 28 league games this season and with a haul of just four wins and 13 draws, he acknowledges that things just have not fallen for the team but dismisses offering up any hard luck stories over decisions and injustice:-
“It is tough, their first goal for me, was a definite foul but the ref didn’t agree. We have to ignore it the best we can and put it in the back of our minds. We cannot keep saying that we are unlucky, we have to start creating luck for ourselves. Hopefully decisions start to go our way.”
Signed from Airdrieonians in July 2019, Josh has yet to find the net after 87 appearances for Dunfermline but he is optimistic that his role is now getting him into positions that offer him opportunities to break that duck:-
“It is good for me that I am getting into those situations further up the pitch. Hopefully next time I can just put the ball in the net instead of getting brought down.”
Disappointed in the end, Josh thought that Dunfermline deserved to take all three points:-
“We will look at it as two points dropped after going ahead in the game twice but it is another point. We need to pick ourselves up for two huge games coming up at home. We really have to take maximum points from those two games. When it comes down to it this might be the point that keeps us up.
“The feeling in the changing room is that we should have won that game, we definitely feel that we will stay up and I’m confident that we will. The boys are putting in so much effort on the pitch and off the pitch in training. We are giving it our all and hopefully come the end of the season our efforts are rewarded and we stay in the league.”
Watch Josh Edwards speaking to Jordan Burt on PARStv
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