On the fourth anniversary of that famous win over Liverpool, the former Wolves striker joins Mikey Burrows as the latest guest on the Old Gold Club’s My Golden Game podcast, as he discusses the impact his goal had to secure passage into the FA Cup fifth round.
Having only joined the club a week previously, Weimann made his full debut for the club in the tie, and after Richard Stearman scored within the first minute of the match, the Austrian doubled his team’s advantage when he rounded Loris Karius to send the large travelling Wolves contingent in the stands wild.
On an FA Cup match to remember
“It’s been four years and a lot has changed for Wolves and for me, but I remember the game very well as it brings me very happy memories as well.
“If you mention the names that started the game for us, only Conor is still there now, but everything just went for us that day.
“‘Stears’ scored within a minute and that gave us something to hang on to, and then I managed to score just before half-time, so that was brilliant.”
On preparing to face Liverpool
“The game plan the day before would have probably been about Liverpool having more of the ball than us, we would have to defend very well and make the most of the chances we would hopefully get.
“If I remember, they didn’t have all of their best players playing in the game, and when you see the teamsheet before the game, it gives you a bit of a lift.
“If you look at this player or that player you kind of think, ‘We’ve got a chance here. If we have a really good game, we’ve got a good chance of winning this today.’ And we did in the end.
“We scored within a minute and I didn’t think it was that early in the game, to be honest. We went 1-0 up and we just grew into the game. There wasn’t one point when we felt we were under too much pressure and feeling like they were going to score any second.
“We were pretty confident and Helder had an unbelievable first-half, and the second goal gave us even more confidence that made us think that we were going to win this today.”
On adding Wolves’ second
“I was hoping Helder was going to pass from. I remember he set off just inside our own half or even further back and their right back was pretty much at the same level as me when I set off running.
“I got past him and there was no-one ahead of me. When you watch the goal back, you can see I have my hand up for about 20 seconds, running with my hand up, and luckily Helder saw me in the end and made a great pass. The pass made the goal in the end because it invited me to take it round the keeper and tap it in.
“Because the ball was played in at full speed and I was running so quick, I just thought the keeper was coming out to close me down, so any touch around the keeper, he can’t get there.
“Obviously, it’s easier scoring in an empty goal than when there’s a keeper there, so that’s all I had in my mind. As soon as I saw the keeper come off his line, I knew that if I took a touch past him, I was in.”
On holding out for the win
“I never thought that we were going to concede two goals, even though for most of the second-half we were in our own half, I didn’t think they had that many clear cut chances where we felt we were getting lucky or getting away with something. We felt like we were going to win the game.
“I came off with about 15 minutes to go, and then they scored, then Harry [Burgoyne] made a great save with two or three minutes to go, but after that, you felt it was happening.
“It’s horrible coming off because you want to be out there helping, but you can’t. The last 10 minutes, you were biting your fingernails and you just have to watch it because there’s nothing you can do.
“It was great scenes after the game. I couldn’t run anymore, so I just walked on! We were all on the pitch and everyone went over to the fans to do the clap.
“There was about 7,000 or 8,000 fans there in the stands, so it was brilliant, it was really loud and we’ll never forget that.”
