Tottenham starlet Troy Parrott breaks his silence after scoring first senior goal in Ipswich win

Tottenham Hotspur teenager Troy Parrott has admitted that he’s “delighted” to have netted his first goal in senior soccer after scoring Ipswich Town’s winner in their win over Plymouth Argyle on Saturday afternoon.

The Republic of Ireland worldwide, who joined the League One aspect on mortgage on the ultimate day of the January switch window till the tip of the season, scored the one goal of the sport after simply 4 minutes to seal Paul Cook’s first win in cost of the Tractor Boys.

The on-loan Spurs ace, who’s held in very excessive regard by these at Hotspur Way, pounced when Pilgrims left-back Adam Lewis’ go again in the direction of goalkeeper Mike Cooper was misjudged, rounded the Argyle shot-stopper and cooly tucked the ball house, guaranteeing he sealed an necessary three factors for the Suffolk membership.

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After the teenager noticed his mortgage spell at Millwall earlier this season tormented by harm troubles, the striker has been left delighted to have lastly bought off the mark at his new membership, however on the identical time has insisted that choosing up all three factors was much more necessary.

“I’m delighted to get off the mark with my first skilled goal,” Parrott instructed iFollow Ipswich. “We undoubtedly deserved to win the sport as properly. If you take a look at the probabilities in the first half we might have been two or three up at half-time.

“It’s solely pure in a sport that when a staff is shedding they will have a spell the place they’re on high and push ahead however I believe we handled them properly.

“If you look again on the goal you possibly can see my positioning and the way I used to be making an attempt to learn the place the Plymouth participant would play the ball. Thankfully that is the way it went. I needed to get the first contact proper after which the end was straightforward.

“We began very well and the gaffer actually wished us to get after the opposition. We did that after which in the second half we noticed it out professionally.

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“Like I stated I’m actually happy with the goal however most significantly we bought the three factors. I’m assured there are extra targets to come back and all I’ll proceed to do is try to get into the appropriate positions.”

The 19-year-old’s first goal for the promotion-chasing Tractor Boys has come on the tenth time of asking after failing to get off the mark in his first 9 appearances for the membership.

Now that he has lastly secured his first goal in senior soccer, the teenager shall be hoping to kick-on and try to assist Ipswich seal a return to the Championship.

The Portman Road outfit are at present sixth in League One, eight factors shy of the automated promotion locations.

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