Rhys’ Happy Return

Celebration on hold - “When he called offside I went not again!

Saturday’s match was Rhys Breen’s first match at Palmerston Park since he played the latter half of the 2020-2021 season on loan to Queen of the South and he marked his return by getting involved in everything! The 22 year old centre back made goal saving tackles, won more or less every header, conceded a penalty and scored a goal. He made quite an impact and sporting a beaming grin, he told the media:-

“It was quite hectic the full game but that is the way that I want to play. I want to be really good defensively but put myself about attacking as well. I got the goal and I hope that continues.”

Rhys scored in added time at the end of the first half but following his ‘winner’ being disallowed the previous week it could have been two weeks running that Rhys had goals chalked off. Fortunately the referee over-ruled his assistant’s offside flag:-

“When it got called off I was sick but when the referee went over and spoke to the linesman I knew myself that I was onside. It was such a relief to get that goal, I feel that it has been a long time coming but hopefully I can keep on getting more.

“I think the ball came off a Queens player to get to me and I just gambled at the back post. It is one of those things that I have to do, the gamble paid off.

“It was good to get the goal but more importantly the win and another clean sheet for us. We knew that it was going to be a tough game but the way that we have been training showed out there.

“We had a lot of chances, we definitely could have scored a couple more but we saw the game out. Even in the last couple of minutes we were putting our bodies on the line. I’m proud of the performance that we put in and really really chuffed on behalf of myself and the team.”

Ahead of the match Rhys had pledged a celebration if he scored even though that would be in front of old team mates and previous supporters. After the win Rhys confirmed his stance in celebrating what was his first ever league goal:-

“No matter who I was playing against, it was one of those ones where I am going to be really happy to score a goal. It is not often that you hear of defenders scoring a lot of goals but that is something that I really want to add to my game.”

The 2-0 victory coupled with results elsewhere meant Dunfermline returned to the top of League One but only six matches into the league campaign Rhys cautioned over getting too worked up about that:-

“I don’t think we should focus too much on that. It is a tight league that we are in, we need to keep positive, train hard and just take everything we did in this game into the next game. Hopefully we can score more goals and keep that clean sheet going.”

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