I like that as soon as he got the ball off Giles, all he wanted to do was get in a shooting position. If quite a few of our players were cutting in from the flank like that making it pretty clear they were going to shoot from twenty five yards, I'd have been thinking don't do it because you know they're much more likely to miss and waste the chance. If Ashford's shot had not got the deflection, I reckon it would have been a testing effort for the keeper to get to as it was heading towards the opposite corner and there was a shot from a similar distance in the first half that he caught really well, but was blocked by a defender.

I also think back to another goal he scored in added time for the Wales Under 21 side against the Czech Republic which was a different type of shot from distance, but it was executed perfectly.

I remember that if a ball dropped to Whitts about twenty five yards out and he had the time to get.a shot away, I was expecting that, at the very least, the goalkeeper is going to make a good save here. Now, I wouldn't saddle a kid who just scored his first Cardiff goal with over expectation by saying he's on a par with a club great, but the early evidence e is that he has a good, repeatable technique which gives him a better chance of succeeding with a particular skill more than most others - it seems this may extend beyond shooting as well.