Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
There’s more to Andreu than just his great goals
wants to take responsibility,” is how Dillon puts it.
“He’s not afraid to work and win the ball back for us. If he’s not at it 100%, which happens to all of us, it does have an effect on how we play.
“When he is winning the ball back it makes a big difference to the team and it’s not something you expect from his type of player.
“You shouldn’t categorise players but you do tend to look at people like him and think he’s a No 10 type, so he won’t track back.
“But he does and, when we are at our best, it plays a big part in it.”
As for that weekend effort, on top of natural ability, Dillon knows hard work had a lot to do with it as well
“It was a good goal. I started the move but he did well for me. When he recognised where my pass was going, he got a good toe to it to get it out to Simon Murray and Simon did very well from there.
“Scotty Fraser was involved as well and when Simon cut the ball to Tony it was a great finish.
“He has that in his locker. I’m not going to go down the cliche route of ‘we see him doing it every day in training’ but what we do see is him practising his finishing a lot.
“If we go from doing one thing in training to another and the gaffer says to get a drink, you’ve got a couple of minutes, Tony will be whipping balls into the net in that time.
“He’s not the only one, there are a number of lads do it.
“It’s down to practice and it paid off on Saturday.”