Sheffield Wednesday Reaction - Cherries II

Last updated : 22 December 2013 By Bournemouth Co-Ordinator

On his return to first team action, Elliott Ward was quoted after the match as saying: "I had been doing fitness work all last week and I had plans to do it all this week again. Until Tuesday or Wednesday, then things changed and I did one session on a bit of shape and that was it; that was me back in the team. I knew if we played the right way today I’d get through the game and we did. In terms of fitness, and my calf, I’m a little bit tight but it’s to be expected. I haven’t done a 90 minute stint in five weeks. I won’t get too excited, I’ve got through this now but it’s about recovery as it is for everyone else. It was well deserved but it probably should have been a bit easier for us to be honest. If we’d have seen the second half out a little bit better it could have been a bit easier. We knew the way we would play our game. We got two goals from it and we could have got a couple more second half as well even when we didn’t play such good football. But they’re a team that are struggling and we knew what we had to do to make sure they were kept out. We had to keep their heads down and give them a mountain to climb".