Aaron Ramsdale
Reflecting on the team’s performance and the first win of the season against Everton.
Aaron Ramsdale said “It was a real team effort. Obviously, it feels great to get sort of that off our chests. Especially the first win. I think the win was probably more important than the clean sheet but to get both together shows that we’re really working with it for the team. The front boys put in the hard yards and the defenders dealt with Everton’s aerial threat, which they’re so good at, and they minimised their chances. If they got through I was thankful I was there. That’s sort of the standards I keep myself, hold myself by. That’s the real Aaron Ramsdale that the Saints fans saw.”
Discussing the mindset and confidence of the team moving forward
Aaron Ramsdale said “I don’t think our mindset has changed. The way we’ve been training, the way we’ve been improving in games in the past week especially gives us so much confidence. It was just about putting it together as a 90 minutes. We had to dig deep because, like I say, they’re an aerial threat. The way they play is fantastic. It’s contrasting styles but we had to deal with that so we dogged it out and then played our football at times when we needed to.”
On the style of play and his belief in manager Russell Martin
Aaron Ramsdale said “We don’t see it as risk. We see it as a way of playing and I feel like we had done it for periods in games and then ended up dropping points. We got through it in the next round of the cup and then put it together against Everton. The fans can rightly so get a bit nervous because they want to see us win.”
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