Parfitt-Williams Reflects on Scoring West Ham Winner
Parfitt-Williams scored last night
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Development Squad striker Djair Parfitt-Williams admitted it felt amazing to score the winner in West Ham’s 1-0 Barclays Under 21 Premier League Cup Final First Leg victory.
The 19-year-old tapped home the game’s only goal in the last minute of regular time to send the 10,000 inside the Boleyn Ground, for its final, into raptures.
Parfitt-Williams, returning from injury, is the Hammers’ top goalscorer in the competition and was delighted to add to his tally with such an important strike.
He said, “It felt amazing. It was the 90th minute and it was 0-0 for the whole game before that so to score in the last minute, especially at Upton Park with a lot of fans here, felt amazing.
“We created some good chances. I think we could have played a little bit quicker at times in the first half but in the second half we started to break them down a little bit more and looked quite dangerous.
“It’s a good achievement to score, but to get this far is about my teammates and my coaches and everything.”
Parfitt-Williams bagged in the previous Cup wins against Exeter, Fulham and Blackburn and added his fourth with a real poachers’ effort in the final first leg.
“I guess I’m in the right place at the right time!” he continued. “That’s what the one was tonight. I was in a good position.
“I knew if I stayed in the middle of the box, Josh Cullen would clip it in far post and I knew Reece Oxford or Doneil Henry would get it back across. I stayed in a good position.
“We’re confident to go anywhere and beat anybody, as we have such a good team. 1-0 definitely gives us a good mood in training and we should be confident going into the second leg.”
