Has Cisse Got The Monkey Off His Back?

Last updated : 23 March 2014 By Footy Mad - Editor

John Carver: “There are only eight games left, but if he goes on a run from now until the end of the season he can have a good season. I’d like to think so.

“He is a confidence player and like all strikers, if they get one goal, sometimes they get two, three or four.

"We don’t know how long Loic Remy is going to be out and he is the guy in the firing line at the moment so hopefully he can go on a bit of a run.

“I thought the goal wasn’t coming, especially when Papiss missed that chance on the stroke of 90 minutes.

“It was a great ball in from Mapou. You think ‘he’s got to put this one in’ and he didn’t.

“But as long as we’ve got time on the clock, we believe we can score right up until the last minute because we’ve done it on a number of occasions, especially going down that hill.

"When Hatem came inside I thought he was going to shoot, but he had the sense to stick it on Papiss’ head and he probably took the hardest chance because it came quickly.

“He’s guided it past the goalkeeper and there is nobody more pleased for him than me.

“At least today we created chances – 21 shots on goal.

"Last week the two chances fell to Papiss and I said after the game last week, how hard he does work on the training ground to put that right. And he certainly did that today.

"He’s not going missing, he’s not hiding and sometimes you can when you’re lacking in confidence.

“I don’t think he’s lacking in confidence, he is just lacking in a little bit of luck and he might have just had that little bit of luck at the end today because he popped up in the right area and he had that composure to guide it in.”