Nottingham Forest loanee Alex Mighten scored a second goal in the space of a week for Sheffield Wednesday this weekend to keep their promotion push on track.
After scoring the second in a 2-0 win over Morecambe in their FA Cup first round tie at Hillsborough last Friday, he followed that up by scoring the winner against Accrington Stanley a week later in a narrow 1-0 away win. These have been the 20-year-old's first two strikes of what has been a stop-start spell with Wednesday.
Mighten has made just five league appearances, with this weekend's start the first time he had featured in over a month. Manager Darren Moore has said that there is "so much more to come" from the winger.
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"It was a wonderful build-up, and to finish it off as he did was good, but for Alex, he’s now starting to come through," Moore said to Yorkshire Live. "There is so much more to come from him."
"He’s got lovely feet; he can go inside, he can go outside, and with the ball in tight situations, he does have such lovely feet and electrifying pace. That frightens defenders.
"For him to get that goal, I’m delighted for him. He’s played 80-odd minutes again; we spoke about where he needs to go as a player in terms of his history of coming off the bench and impacting games.
"We’ve brought him here to play games and to win football matches. He’s come here, and he’s getting the understanding of what we want from him, whether we play a four or whether we play a three, and he showed that today."
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