Source: Team_Talk
Hard graft paying off for Owls
Marcus Tudgay bagged a brace as the visitors ran out 3-1 winners at Home Park to leave Argyle still searching for their first Championship victory of the campaign.[LNB]Laws said: "We worked extremely hard to get this win. When you travel seven hours to a match you want to come away with something and we have.[LNB]"We were resilient. The first goal was always going to be important.[LNB]"It was a set-piece move we worked on in training and it has worked for us, so obviously I am pleased with that.[LNB]"I knew a second goal would be the key to the game and we got it.[LNB]"That was important as well.[LNB]"Overall I was really pleased with the team and the only negative was that we gave away silly fouls, and one of them resulted in a free-kick from which they scored."[LNB]Central defender Richard Wood headed the Owls' 33rd-minute opener after Darren Potter's corner from the left was headed back across goal by striker Tudgay.[LNB]Home skipper Carl Fletcher saw his 55th-minute shot come back off the post before Wednesday went two up after striker Luke Varney was sent tumbling by defender Marcel Seip.[LNB]Tudgay tucked away the 72nd-minute spot-kick, although home goalkeeper Romain Larrieu got a hand to the ball.[LNB]Argyle striker Alan Gow halved the deficit in the 80th minute with a thumping 25-yard free-kick after a handball by full-back Tommy Spurr.[LNB]Gow's next free-kick, in the 84th minute, was headed over by full-back Gary Sawyer as Argyle sought to restore parity.[LNB]Tudgay ensured the 1,200 travelling Wednesday supporters went home happy after exchanging passes with Potter and firing home his second goal of the match in stoppage time.[LNB]Argyle manager Paul Sturrock - a former Wednesday boss - handed a debut to new on-loan Cardiff right back Darcy Blake, signed on Friday, and paired former Rangers striker Gow in attack with on-loan Celtic forward Cillian Sheridan for the first time.[LNB]Sturrock said: "There is such a thin line between winning and not winning and if Fletcher's shot had hit inside of the post and gone in it would have been 1-1 and game on.[LNB]"But we cannot afford to give away goals like we did, at a set-piece and with a sloppy penalty.[LNB]"We have got to start defending better as a team because I am sure we have got goals in us now that Gow and Sheridan are here.[LNB]"I didn't make any substitutions because I saw all sorts of individual positives and up front those pair need match-time together."[LNB][LNB]
