League One's top goalscorer Jordan Rhodes has spoken after winning promotion with Huddersfield Town at Wembley. Rhodes was dragged out in front of thousands of Town fans by Chairman Dean Hoyle on Monday and the fans showed their gratitude to the forty goal striker. Here is what Jordan had to say about the win at Wembley;
"I think the final was quite a nervous game played between two very evenly matched sides, but I'm delighted with the end result. I don't think the game had many chances in it at either end - I don't believe either 'keeper had loads to do. Steve Simonsen made a terrific save off Alan Lee towards the end, but other than that neither goalie had a great deal to do."
"It couldn't have been any closer. Every player took a penalty kick in the end and that decided it."
Rhodes decided not to put himself forward for a penalty in the first five but ended up having to take one in the end. He looked calm and composed and he slotted it in past Simonsen in front of 25,000 Town fans.
"It was very nerve-racking! The manager decided to go with three senior players for the first three penalties and then Peter Clarke followed them, but it was a bit crazy that we only scored one out of four. We came back from that though - and we owe most of that to Alex Smithies."
"I might have looked calm, but I wasn't inside! I was delighted to see it go in."
Promotion to the Championship has always been the aim of Huddersfield Town since Dean Hoyle became the clubs chairman. Rhodes and the squad have achieved that this season and this is what he thought of it;
"It's what we've wanted and what we've been striving for during the last three years, ever since I joined. Fortunately for us it was a case of 'third time lucky' and we managed to sneak over the line."
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