Super Eagles defender William Troost-Ekong reacts after scoring his first goal for Watford

Nigeria defender, William Troost-Ekong, has actually responded after scoring his very first objective for the English club, Watford.

27 years of age Ekong scored in his side’s 3-2 success over Coventry City in Saturday night’s Championship video game.

The center-back powered a great header past goalkeeper Marko Marosi from James Garner’s corner making it Watford’s 6th win of the season.

Troost speaking with reporters stated;

“James Garner put a great ball in and made it simple, I simply needed to work on to it,” Troost-Ekong informed Watford’s site.

“It was an essential minute and set-pieces are so essential in this league, you see how they can alter video games. It’s been breaking us up until now this season so to score from a set-piece is huge.

“I’m delighted I handled to contribute like that today and ideally we can get some more throughout the season.”

“The objectives are truly essential. We need to do a bit much better, we’ve been yielding a lot of in the last couple of video games however there’s a lot we can still enhance and I believe this group has a lot capacity,” he continued.

“We simply need to keep going and keep working, keep the goalscoring going, and ideally we will not yield as numerous objectives from set-pieces as we have actually done.

“The very first half we were dominant however simply missing out on an objective. We played well in belongings today, we moved the ball much better than we carried out in the previous video games and it’s constantly good when we score the very first objective.

“We lost ourselves for a minute when they got the 2 objectives back, however, we revealed the fantastic character to come out with the 3 points.”

Watford are now 2nd on the league table, one point behind leaders Reading and Troost-Ekong thinks the position will improve their self-confidence.

“If you’re taking a look at the target for the remainder of the season, we require to remain on course, so it’s crucial we keep up in the table, however, everybody understands how close it is,” he included.

“If we ‘d lost today we may have dropped 5, 6, or 7 locations, so I do not believe you can truly take a look at the table yet, however it’s crucial for the sensation and for the momentum.”