Coventry City captain Carl Baker has said that he cannot remember playing in a game as dramatic as the one which saw Coventry City won 3-1 at Rotherham United.
Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph's Alan Poole, Baker said: “I can’t remember playing in a game like it.
“In the first half didn’t get to grips with the game but second half we came out fighting with a bit of spirit."
Baker took the 70th minute penalty which got City back in the match and scored and said about his goal: “It’s probably one of the best penalties I’ve taken but I think it had to be because the keeper is a really big lad and I knew if he went the right way he’d have a chance of saving it.
“So I put it right in the corner and it smashed in off the post, so it was a perfect pen really and I don’t think any keeper would have saved it.”
That was rounded off in the fourteenth minute of stoppage time when Baker scored from inside his own half with a goal that he dedicated to City supporter Brett Woodier sadly passed away due to Leukaemia a few days ago.over the Christmas period.
About that goal he said: “I thought we’d thrown it away.
“As soon as it was cleared it was in my mind to run as far as I could with it and shoot whenever I got tired or someone got near me to make a tackle.
“I felt a defender coming so I just hit it and it was agonising waiting for it to go over the line and praying Aaron Phillips didn’t get a touch, and I thanked him afterwards because I think most of the other lads would have touched it in. It’s a once in a career goal for me.”
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