Source: Bournemouth_Echo
Cherries star Ings: Being dropped gave me the boost I needed
DANNY Ings revealed how being taken out of the firing line by boss Lee Bradbury sharpened him up and helped inspire his game-changing heroics.[LNB] The 18-year-old saw his 11-game run in the starting line-up come to an end when he was named among the substitutes at Dagenham and Redbridge on Saturday.[LNB] And manager Bradbury's decision proved to be a masterstroke when the homegrown star came off the bench to play a major role in Cherries' battling 2-1 win in the capital.[LNB] With his team trailing to Jon Nurse's 48th-minute opener, Bradbury called on Ings as Cherries looked to get back into the contest at Victoria Road.[LNB] It paid dividends when the first-year professional quickly headed home Cherries' equaliser before playing a part in Anton Robinson's dramatic 88th-minute winner.[LNB] Ings told the Echo: I think it was fair to say I needed a little bit of a rest because of all the games I'd played and I had only just come into it.[LNB] But that was a little kick for me to go on and change the game when we were 1-0 down.[LNB] Making sure I don't get complacent or I don't think my spot is there every week, he (Bradbury) gave me that little bit of a setback to sharpen me up again and it worked.[LNB] I felt a lot sharper on Saturday than I had been in the past two games.[LNB] Ings is hoping he can find the net more regularly after scoring his second career goal, having gone four games without hitting the net.[LNB] He said: I thought I played my part in the team when I was starting, with my work-rate and other side of the game, not the pretty stuff.[LNB] Now I have got that second goal, hopefully I can kick on. I scored one goal and had two efforts disallowed on Saturday, so hopefully I can build on that and score some more goals for Bournemouth.[LNB] Ings also revealed he was benefiting from extra work on the training ground with Cherries' management duo Bradbury and Steve Fletcher both vastly experienced strikers.[LNB] He added: They have treated me right. They keep me after training for extra work and tell me what I have got to do.[LNB] In the past four games where I hadn't scored, we worked hard on the training ground on the distances between me and the target man. We tried putting it in place on Saturday and it worked.[LNB]
