Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:50 am
Joel Bagan: "I needed that motivation"
Goal hero Joel Bagan says seeing the likes of Ryan Giles and Alfie Doughty playing in front of him was the motivational spark he needed.
Bagan saw loan man Giles start the season ahead of him in the pecking order at Cardiff City Stadium, with the Wolves man in good form. After he was recalled to Molineux, Morison brought in Doughty from Stoke City, who also started like a train in south Wales.
However, an injury picked up by Doughty at Barnsley saw Bagan handed a chance to impress and the youngster hasn't looked back, scoring three goals in the past week.
"After I got the second one, I said I couldn't believe it, but today, I was just in the right place at the right time again, and connected with it well," Bagan said. "I don't think I've ever done this before, even as a kid!
"In the first half we weren't at our best, and we knew that going in at half-time. But we came out in the second half, and we're disappointed in the end, in the changing room, that we didn't get three points out of it.
"I think it's disappointing when you're not playing; as a player, you want to be playing every game. But, seeing Ryan Giles and Alfie Doughty playing, it was something I needed. Looking back at it now, it was probably the best thing that could have happened.
"I've been here with people like Isaak Davies and Rubin Colwill for four of five years now; boys who I've done a scholarship with. Sometimes you have to pinch yourself when you're in the changing room and there are five or six of you sat in there and you're all involved."