Ebbsfleet United striker Aaron Cosgrave on not sitting back this campaign and maintaining a positive mentality when not picked to start fixtures
Aaron Cosgrave has explained why he doesn’t expect Ebbsfleet to sit on one-goal leads too much this season.
Striker Cosgrave came off the substitutes’ bench to get his competitive campaign going with the game’s only goal in last weekend’s 1-0 home win against Chippenham.
Moments later, the 26-year-old felt he also should have been awarded a penalty and, barring a couple of saves from keeper Mark Cousins, the Fleet rarely sat back during some seven minutes of injury time.
Cosgrave thinks it’s an attacking mentality which has come from both boss Josh Wright and the players themselves.
He said: “Obviously, the gaffer (Wright) has instilled a winning mentality into the team all the way through pre-season and, every game, once we score one, ‘Can we get another one?’.
“We’re not happy with just scoring one and then maybe sitting back.
“That’s not the game-plan. We’re all hungry as players to go and get goals.
“It really shows when we’re playing and, hopefully, there’s many more goals to come throughout the whole squad.”
It’s perhaps not overly-surprising the former Welling and AFC Wimbledon forward has the view that attack is the best form of defence.
He said: “It’s easy to think ‘We’re 1-0 up, let’s just defend the lead.’ But the way I see it, attack is the best form of defence.
“If we go and get another and put the game to bed, it makes it a lot harder for the other team. That’s what we try to do.
“Obviously, we only got the one on Saturday but, definitely, we’ll try to score more goals.”
There’s plenty of competition for places at Ebbsfleet and Cosgrave has had to make do with a spot on the bench for their first two league fixtures.
But he came up with the perfect response against Chippenham.
“I want to start every game,”