Elder Ready For Fulham Test

The Australian-born youngster returned from an Achilles injury in Tuesday’s 4-2 victory against Blaby & Whetstone in the Westerby Cup Winners’ Cup final after a long spell on the sidelines.
Elder, who plies his trade at left-back, is eager to return to regular football and believes the squad can take a lot of positives from their winning streak at the end of last year’s Barclays U21 Premier League season.
Speaking after the victory over Blaby & Whetstone, the City youngster said: “It was great, I’m really happy with the result.
“Our next game is at King Power Stadium against Fulham and we’re looking to bounce back against them – we’re all up for it.
“We did really well last season, I was really happy with the way we finished.
I was looking to kick on again and suffered a little set back with the injury but I’m really looking forward to getting back in the league games.
“We’re playing in a tough league against quality opposition but we think we can do really well again.
“For me more than anyone not being involved in the Everton game was tough – it really does feel like the first game of the season.”
Several postponements and the international break meant that City went without a Premier League game for three weeks – their last outing a thrilling 3-2 defeat at Everton.
Elder reflected on last season’s win against their upcoming opponents, a victory which started a run of seven wins in eight games in the closing stages of the 2013/14 campaign.
A key member of the team that night, Elder added: “While we’ve had quite a lengthy spell without a game, we see this game as the start of our season and hope to get a run going and hopefully get up that league table.
“It was a huge turnaround last season – they were top of the league and we were going down knowing it would be a tough game.
“They set out a strong team with quite a few first team lads and it came at a time where we knew we had to come together as a team and we did.
“We did really well to get a 3-1 win that night – it sparked a run of unbeaten games so hopefully we can do that again when we play them on Monday night.” 

Tickets for the Fulham game are priced at £3 for Adults and £1 for Concessions (in the West Stand only). Kick-off is at 7pm.