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'I love going forward' - Irish full-back scores 94th-minute winner for Wolves

Dubliner Matt Doherty also provided the assist for the Championship side’s first goal in last night’s dramatic win over Bristol City.

LAST NIGHT’S SKY Bet Championship games threw up an Irish goalscorer as Wolves clinched an injury-time 2-1 victory over Bristol City.

Dublin-born full-back Matt Doherty proved instrumental for Kenny Jackett’s side — setting up Nathan Byrne for their opener with a mazy run before getting his head onto Jeremy Helan’s free-kick in the 94th minute.

“There’s no better way to win a game than in the last minute whether it’s you personally or as a team,” Doherty said on Wolves’ YouTube channel.

Former Ireland U21 international and Bohemians youth, who joined Wolves in 2010, has been a regular in the team this term with 28 appearances in all competitions.

The 24-year-old enjoys the attacking side of the game but says he has been working hard to improve his defending.

“I love going forward but the manager and my dad and the coaching staff had said to be a defender first because I’m not naturally always thinking defensively,” he added.

I’ve just knuckled down and worked hard defensively in training and in games it’s about not getting carried away by trying to get forward every time.

“It’s freed me up when I’ve done my job defensively to break forward and I’ve been able to do some pretty good things in the last few weeks.”

Watch Matt’s goal and his assist:

Official Wolves / YouTube

And his post-match interview:

Official Wolves / YouTube

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    Feb 14th 2018, 9:54 PM

    Sack Emery – an atrocious manager who is way out of his league with PSG. Terrible game management – happy to settle for a draw and takes off Cavani!!!! in place of Meunier who was at fault for the winning Real Madrid goals. He also left form player Di Maria on the bench lol.

    Why he wasn’t sacked after throwing away a 3 goal advantage against Barcelona last year just boggles the mind.

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    Feb 14th 2018, 9:55 PM

    But can he do it in the big games? Oh wait!! Great game for the neutrals 3 goal really changes the next leg

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    Feb 14th 2018, 10:02 PM

    It’s nuts to think zidane consistently plays benzema, he offered nothing again tonight. Bale and asensio made huge difference when they came on, brought the one thing Madrid were lacking…. pace

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    Feb 14th 2018, 10:03 PM

    @Tony Yeboah TP: Maybe that was the plan all along, bring em on when the opposition got tired.

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    Feb 14th 2018, 10:09 PM

    Ronaldo comes good again to win it and pick up the Balon D’Or, Whats the chances!!

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    Feb 15th 2018, 12:13 AM

    G’wan Ronaldo boi. What a player!

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    Feb 14th 2018, 10:36 PM

    Its not over yet but Real stuck at it and showed how they can dig out results .

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    Feb 14th 2018, 11:59 PM

    Ronaldo needs to calm down his celebrations you’d think he just scored a bicycle kick in the final

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    Feb 15th 2018, 2:13 AM

    @Ruairi Doyle: goals 100 and 101 for Real Madrid in CL are worth celebrating in style

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    Feb 15th 2018, 1:37 PM

    Emery again proving he is not an elite level manager. Some terrible in game management last night, can’t understand how you leave lo celso on their field that long, apart from a few passes he was having a nightmare, also hauling off cavani was a bad move. I hope for cavani sake he leaves in the summer, he will never gets credit he deserves at psg now and takes unfair critisicm,.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 12:23 PM

    I’m just speaking in general

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