Gomes ready to carry on scoring for Blackburn Rovers (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Gomes ready to carry on scoring for Blackburn Rovers
9:46am Friday 21st September 2012 in News
By Chris Flanagan, Sports reporter
RACING BACK TO THE TEAM Gael Givet is fit for tonight’s Championship clash with Middlesbrough at Ewood Park
NUNO Gomes believes he has plenty of goals left in him after a good start to life at Blackburn Rovers – despite admitting his career had been written off by some in his native Portugal.
Gomes scored for a fourth successive game when he came off the bench to net the winner against Barnsley on Tuesday, and thinks his form can get even better as he continues to adapt to the Championship.
The Portugal international had been rested to protect his 36-year-old legs in midweek but is expected to be back in the starting line-up when Rovers host Middlesbrough in front of the Sky Sports cameras at Ewood Park tonight.
Defender Gael Givet is fit to return after a dead leg.
There was some initial scepticism, both in England and Portugal, about Rovers’ decision to sign Gomes on a two-year contract this summer.
And, while the veteran insists he has nothing to prove after a successful career, he revealed that some in his homeland did doubt he could revive his goalscoring days after leaving Braga.
FROM BACK PAGE “Part of the people, yes,” he said. “The ones who support you they always believe in you, the ones who don’t like you they just criticise.
“Some people said, ‘Oh, he is finished in football’.
“But you know I feel okay and I am happy to be here.
“I am happy to be a part of this team and to keep playing because I enjoy playing football.
“If I thought that I wasn’t ready for this challenge, I wouldn’t have come.
“I am happy that I have scored goals here, I am very glad, but if I can score more hopefully I will do in the next games.
“You get confidence and because it is my first time in England you start to know how they play the game here. In the future I think I can do better things.
“But I don’t want to show anyone, I just want to keep playing and of course keep scoring to help the team because I think that this club deserves to be in the Premier League all the time.”
Gomes’ decision to move to the English second tier might have seemed surprising on the face of it.
But the former Fiorentina and Benfica star thinks he is adapting well to a new style of football, and hopes his early form and Rovers’ position at the top of the table will now make people see that he joined a good club.
“I hope so, I hope they can think like that,” he said.
“In Portugal we see Blackburn as a big club in England, as a historic club, so I think it’s a shame that we are in the Championship because we have the structure like a Premier League club.
“I hope we can return as fast as we can.
“I am okay here, my family is happy to be here. Of course the weather is not the same as in Portugal but I am adapting, I am very glad to be here.
“The culture is almost the same, it is not a big difference from Portugal, the way of life is not a big difference.
“In football now everybody is working in virtually the same way, with the sport science and the other team members.
“On the pitch it is harder because players just keep running all the time and they don’t stop until the referee finishes the game, that is the difference I think you can find.
“It is a little bit harder but not that much harder.”
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Comments (62)
10:12am Fri 21 Sep 12
forever-a-blue-jean says...
Watch on Tv tonight the empty seats and lack of sponsors are biting hard.
Kean has already given us two record low crowds in over twenty years let him make it three.
He claims the fans are backing HIM
He claims the stay aways are due to the WEATHER
He claims he is winning us over
Wipe the smarmy grin from his smug face.
Cue the Rovers Employees to tell us to be spartans
10:22am Fri 21 Sep 12
inflightmagazine says...
Middelsborough next should be an interesting game, were not playing great at the minute and winning , which to be honest is better than playing well and losing ( Leicester suffering with this at the minute). Cant help feeling that with a good manager this team could really set this league on fire. In the mean time i will just enjoy the goals.
10:26am Fri 21 Sep 12
YarkshahRover says...
10:28am Fri 21 Sep 12
angryandy says...
10:30am Fri 21 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
Totally agree..... Everyone can see it but Venkys. Why won't they swing the axe and unite Ewood ?
Good luck to the TEAM tonight.
10:34am Fri 21 Sep 12
xrayspex77 says...
10:40am Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
Your club needs you!
We will fight them on the beaches!!
10:41am Fri 21 Sep 12
champs95 says...
10:42am Fri 21 Sep 12
inflightmagazine says...
10:47am Fri 21 Sep 12
angryandy says...
10:57am Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
Hope you "infultrated" the Preston people! while you where there!
10:58am Fri 21 Sep 12
guiderover says...
11:01am Fri 21 Sep 12
Rovers 1495 says...
11:02am Fri 21 Sep 12
Frisson says...
11:23am Fri 21 Sep 12
A Darener says...
Good luck to the team tonight.
Get into em!
Look forward to tomorrow when all the Spartans tell us how we won with style and flair! And their leader Kean is fighting the good fight.
11:26am Fri 21 Sep 12
garyintandem says...
RTID
11:37am Fri 21 Sep 12
the_iconoclast says...
11:38am Fri 21 Sep 12
handsj14 says...
11:42am Fri 21 Sep 12
Bazzer says...
11:58am Fri 21 Sep 12
French Rover says...
Stuff Venkys and the Odious one and all the rubbish in the boardroom and get yourselves down and shout on the team. Your team. Surely you can see that you are not proving anything to anyone (not even yourselves if you are truthful) anymore by staying away any longer. Like the marches and the early protests they are only really effective at the beginning when it is all new and shocking.....but any success from any action fades away over time... and that is when protests need a new or fresher approach to keep the topic in the news and in our case to help get SK out? Seeing the arrogance on his face at matches It seems at the moment like he knows that he is not going anywhere soon. That has to change.
12:08pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Brears says...
12:11pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Wild Rover says...
Another win tonight , keeps us clappers happy
12:22pm Fri 21 Sep 12
A Darener says...
12:23pm Fri 21 Sep 12
angryandy says...
12:25pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
12:27pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
12:31pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
12:33pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
12:36pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
Well it's not as though he has got his hands full is it!
12:39pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
I said, "I quite like Gwhatod.
"She said, "What in God's name is that?"
I said, "Yes."
12:43pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
She said "puncture"
So I did, knocked her mum out sparko
12:47pm Fri 21 Sep 12
AndyW says...
12:52pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Always_a_blue says...
He is getting paid probably c.£1m for not doing his job well. Why would he walk away? He isn't going to land another job like this.
If they sack him, what other manager would join our club the state it is in. Players bought for you, minimal contact with the board, no back office support.
The guy is a yes man and happy to operate as one.
Unless a local fan wins the 10th Euromillions rollover or we manage to create another steel magnate who is a die hard fan then we are stuck with what we have.
It isn't ideal but it is fact. We need to get on with it. 5000 fans staying away is small beer compared to tv rights and marketing which is clearly what Venky's were after.
They buy the club for £40m sell players to at least that amount, are now known globally and could have a fire sale if we don't get promoted and still walk away quids in.
Get behind the team and enjoy the wins - For now!
12:52pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Mike_82 says...
12:56pm Fri 21 Sep 12
walshy2866 says...
LT is as incompetent and scared to say owt as the team.
Oh for the days of Peter White, proper reporter. Grow some Cryer!
1:20pm Fri 21 Sep 12
bluerob says...
1:26pm Fri 21 Sep 12
walshy2866 says...
If this team was in the prem now we'd be bottom because we wouldn't have been given space to score and would have conceded more goals due to dire defending (coached by Hendry, a man who's lost so much respect in so shorter time)
However we're in the championship and from what I've seen there isn't an outstanding team in the whole division. So enjoy the moment , we've got the routine spanking of the inbreds coming up and believe me after talking to some proper cl@rets fans (there is the odd one or two believe it or not), they are 5hitting themselves about playing us.
What do you want you moaning b@stards?
Jacks gone and so has his legacy sadly , do you want a Bill Fox type club? 6000 gates , p1ssing against a wall in the Blackburn End bogs and excited by a free transfer of someone who played for Barcelona 5 years ago?
The lot of you moaning whining gits need to get a grip, support the team we love, abuse the manager we hate if you think it helps and try our best to get OUR club back in the top flight.
If you have your mind oggled with all the chemicals you've breathed in over the years then p1ss off and watch your other local club, plenty of room at the breezebock to watch that other snivelling , money grabbing fenian coyle make a mess of football management too.
Rant over, get behind the Blues tonight and live for today!
1:37pm Fri 21 Sep 12
janus1947 says...
1:46pm Fri 21 Sep 12
MxMave says...
1:59pm Fri 21 Sep 12
RTID says...
2:02pm Fri 21 Sep 12
forever blue and white says...
Here come the usual moaners.
Just before all you moaners come on here stating we are Kean lovers even though every post I state that I am not.
If you had been at the game on Tuesday night, the ref went over to Kean to have a word with him.
12,500 Rovers fans immediately started to chant OFF OFF OFF.
So give it a rest calling all the fans that are going to the matches Kean luvvies.
There isn't one at Ewood.
Rovers are going up!!!
2:03pm Fri 21 Sep 12
A Darener says...
2:11pm Fri 21 Sep 12
bburnrover says...
2:32pm Fri 21 Sep 12
makaveli96 says...
4:47pm Fri 21 Sep 12
DirtyHarry says...
4:50pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
One match only show Mrs D an empty stadium as she sits on her throne in India. RU and all Spartans return to normal after tonight's televised match.
All fans stay away BOYCOTT this match, show the owners we ALL want rid of Kean, the with -
Kean sacked the fans will flock back.
P.S. good luck to the team tonight, hopefully we will ALL be back soon to roar you on.
5:26pm Fri 21 Sep 12
wrigglers says...
But back to the game another shambolic defensive display but a 3 - 2 win to stay ahead of the chasing pack
5:53pm Fri 21 Sep 12
whappen says...
There's only been three home matches so its a bit early to be saying it is "not proving anything to anyone".
You may not be able to contemplate how any Rovers fan can resist going down to Ewood but, and I know it's a quaint old fashioned notion, but some people do still have principles.
6:09pm Fri 21 Sep 12
whappen says...
Besides, Mrs D and da boyz wont be reading the Sun in Pune and certainly wont be here to pick one up, so who cares?
I would hope they would see the empty seats on TV (if they do actually bother watching it) and think "That can't be right".
They may just show that for once they can actually add one and one together without getting three; the rupee may finally drop causing them to realise somebody has not been entirely truthful and things are not quite as rosy as they had been led to believe.
Y'never know.
6:12pm Fri 21 Sep 12
johnny rover says...
6:22pm Fri 21 Sep 12
guiderover says...
6:26pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Irish knowledge says...
6:34pm Fri 21 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
6:42pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Rovers75 says...
6:50pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Kean out from me!
6:53pm Fri 21 Sep 12
peely says...
7:06pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Boycotters don't want us to go up - b@llocks who said that, no one iny you.
Boycotters want us to go down - B@llocks again who said that no one
Don't make things up and slag people of, come on here and debate, disagree but don't make things T@ sser
I want Rovers up
I want our club run properly not by shisters
I want all fans uniting again at Ewood
THAT'S what I want and don't say anything different.
7:08pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Rovers75 says...
7:26pm Fri 21 Sep 12
French Rover says...
7:59pm Fri 21 Sep 12
keanoutofrovers says...
10:33pm Fri 21 Sep 12
ponyton says...
Shisters and Swindlers OUT/ KEAN-HENDRY OUT / OUT
10:38pm Fri 21 Sep 12
YarkshahRover says...