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Inside View: Charlton Athletic midfielder Jose Semedo wrtes for the KM Group

12:07, 07 April 2011

Jose Semedo
Jose Semedo

We experienced both sides of the coin in four days this week. On Saturday, after the final whistle at least, there was jubilation. But on Tuesday night, we were feeling disappointment.

The second-half performance against Leyton Orient at the weekend was how we want to play. We want to pressure opponents, especially at home.

We did that in the second half and scored three good goals to overturn the 1-0 lead they held at the break. It was a good display, full of resilience and hard work.

Of course, my own day ended with a dream first goal at The Valley and I was emotional – as fans probably saw.

I’m sure Charlton fans know how much I appreciate the love they have shown me since I arrived in England four years ago.

I was happy to win the game – but to score at The Valley is something I can’t explain.

I said after the game that now the dam has been broken, fans might see me scoring a lot more goals. It was a joke but there is a serious side to it as well.

I don’t want to wait another year and a half to score. The manager wants me to go forward more and the more you get in the box, it makes sense that you will get more opportunities to score.

Unfortunately, we created very few chances on Tuesday against Southampton at St Mary’s.

We knew it would be a difficult game because they are still chasing automatic promotion but we felt we underperformed.

It wasn’t what we wanted after the good result against Orient but we have to pick ourselves up again to travel to Oldham Athletic on Saturday.

As the end of the season approaches, people always start to talk about contracts and next season.

I’m one of a lot of players who are out of contract in the summer and, at the moment, no one has said anything to me about a new contract but I want to stay.

If they give me a contract here for all of my life, I would sign it. Charlton is my home and I would stay here all my life.

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