Crawley Town striker Tola Showunmi on THAT goal at Charlton and partnership with Will Swan

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Crawley Town host Stevenage at the Broadfield Stadium on Saturday in a league One fixture. Here is striker Tola Showunmi following his great striker against Charlton

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00:00Thank you for joining us. Fresh off an incredible strike on Tuesday night, we're preparing to

00:04take on Stevenage this weekend. Firstly, how's the mood in camp?

00:07I think everyone's obviously happy with the win. We fought hard for it, so yeah, I think

00:11feelings are good going into the next game and everyone's happy.

00:14Yeah, we'll talk a little bit about your goal in a minute, but firstly, how's your first

00:18few months at Crawley Bean? Because obviously it was a bit of a chaotic start for you. You

00:21obviously came with us, signed, did all the media and then it took a little while for

00:25it to get announced, but you've sort of worked your way into the team and scored lots of

00:28goals, so how have you been finding it?

00:30Yeah, just adjusting. I found it good. The first couple of weeks I'm just getting used

00:35to English football. I've been in America for a while, so just adapting, but I'm really

00:39enjoying it here. The lads have made me feel welcome, both the coach and staff. Loving

00:45it so far.

00:46Yeah, what are the main differences from obviously playing over in the States now? Have you been

00:50talking with Jeremy Kelly about that? Has he given you some advice about what the main

00:54differences to the English game are?

00:56Yeah, when I first came, he was just explaining to me what he thought and stuff. I'd say it's

01:02a lot more intense here in physical, but I think there's a lot of good players out in

01:07America and there's a lot of good players here. At the end of the day, it's just football,

01:11so just dealing with the intensity and the physical play, but yeah, I'm adjusting and

01:17it's good.

01:18Yeah, and obviously those nerves would have been settled a lot by your first goal for

01:22Crawley at Maidenhead and then obviously going on to score a couple in the league as well

01:25and obviously one in the FA Cup, so it must be nice to get those goals early and really

01:28settle into the team.

01:29Yeah, 100 per cent. As a striker, your job is to score goals, so getting the first one

01:33off your back is really important and you just feel like you can go on from there. The

01:38first one in the cup was a special one for me, to be fair, because it was my first goal

01:42back in England and yeah, just kicking on from there.

01:45Yeah, and we seem to have slightly changed the way we play. Obviously for a long time

01:49Swan were up front in the zone, but you've been coming in the last few games to assist.

01:53It seems to have benefited both of you really well. Do you agree with that?

01:56Yeah, I think so. I really enjoy playing with Swanee. He can come under, we can link the

02:00play. He's given me a couple assists already, so yeah, I'm enjoying it and yeah, it's a

02:04bit of a system, just a slight tweak in the system, but yeah, I think it's working well

02:09so far.

02:10Brilliant. Yeah, talking about Swanee, how do you build that relationship with another

02:14striker? Is it just talking to him and obviously working at training as well?

02:18Yeah, I think it's communication on the pitch and off the pitch and then working at it in

02:23training because obviously we practice the patterns in training, like linking up with

02:27each other, so that helps and also communication on the pitch. I know he presses, I'm coming

02:32back in and if I press, I know where he's going to be. When he has the ball, I tell

02:36him where I'd prefer and stuff like that, so yeah.

02:39Yeah, and the goal on Tuesday night, I'm sure it's going to go down in Trawley history as

02:43one of the great goals kind of thing. Can you just talk us through it from the moment

02:47you got the ball, what your thoughts were?

02:49I mean, probably have to include, like, go up for the header from Referee and it goes

02:53to Swanee. He does really well to get it back to me. I just take a touch out of my feet,

02:58take one more touch and I realise I'm in a shooting position, so I just wrap my foot

03:02around it and thankfully it ends up in the other top corner.

03:06Yeah, it was a shame it wasn't in front of the Crawley fans because the Crawley fans

03:09have been magnificent, haven't they? How have you found them since you've been here?

03:13It's been amazing just to see the atmosphere and the passion around the club. It's been

03:17a really cool thing for me to be a part of and, yeah, you could hear them from the other

03:22end of the stadium going crazy, so yeah, it made it even better.

03:25Yeah, and this squad is obviously, there seems to be a lot of togetherness with the squad.

03:29How far can they go this season? Can you really rise up that table, do you believe?

03:33Yeah, I think as far as we push, we obviously have the quality and the talent and the passion

03:39here, so I think we'll go as far as we push. I believe we're a great team and just we have

03:45to try and win every game and see how it goes.

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