Fraser hails “perfect away performance”
Bouncing back from a first defeat in 26 matches with victory at promotion-chasing West Brom, goal scorer Ryan Fraser labelled Saints’ performance as “perfect”.
Taking on a Baggies side who had won their last five outings at the Hawthorns, Fraser’s goal after 14 minutes silenced the buoyant home crowd.
Digging in after the break, David Brooks opened his Saints account with a little over a quarter-of-an-hour remaining to instantly return Russell Martin’s side to winning ways, leaving Fraser elated.
“From the outset, everyone wanted us to lose,” the Scotsman began. “Friday night, on the back of our first defeat in 25 games, so everybody would’ve been watching that game tonight and I think we’ve just laid down a massive marker.
“The performance, from a bit of adversity on Tuesday where we didn’t play well, it wasn’t nice to be a part of, and we’ve come to a massive place like this, promotion rivals as well, and it’s a massive, massive… probably a perfect away performance.
“They would be wanting automatics as well. It’s such a hard place to come, the teams around us have come here and struggled and not got results. Teams now, it’s all cup finals, 14 cup finals to go, [so we’ll] try and tick them off, try and give our all, we’re going to need the whole squad.
“You look at the changes tonight from Tuesday; myself, the skip came in, unbelievable performance, Sékou came in, unbelievable, everyone is just needed and the team could change on Tuesday again against Hull so we’re going to need everyone.”
Notching his eighth goal of the season with a smart volley at the back post from a cleverly worked short corner, Fraser was left more pleased with the result than being back on the score sheet.
“The floodlights are always in your eyes so you have to wait until the perfect moment for it to come down, and luckily I’ve struck it so well and it’s one of them that when you hit it you know it’s going in.
“I scored a goal, [but the] main thing is we won. Always say it, don’t care if I score or don’t score, but we won and just confidence to take into the next game and if I play, I play and if I don’t, I don’t but the squad changed tonight and the squad might change on Tuesday and everyone will be needed.”
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