Alex Robertson continued his fine pre-season form against European giants AS Roma, starring as the Bluebirds ran out 4-1 winners.
“It was very good, a very enjoyable afternoon.” Alex began. “I thought we played really well, and played the way we’ve been working on all pre-season.
“Obviously everyone knows they are a great side, a great club with a lot of history, but I feel like today we looked past that, and just thought it’s another team that we’re playing against. I thought we did really well as a team - that scoreline kind of showed that - but we have to just keep pushing on from this because there were a lot of great things in the game to build on.
“I feel like we are in a good spot, we’ve had some good pre-season games and there is a lot of great stuff that happened in this game we can just build on.”
City now turn their attention to competitive fixtures, and Alex is looking ahead to the season proper getting underway.
“We have to be confident as a team and just keep trying to build on each game and find good bits, find the bad bits, analyse them and just work on them every day in training.
“Look at last year when we played Chelsea; they were obviously a great team and we played really well, albeit the result. We’ve got a great side, a lot of young players who just want to do their best and show the fans what they’re about, and hopefully we can do that again this season.
“I feel like the amount of wins we had last season, every week as a team, probably puts us in good stead for coming into this season, and we’ve just got to keep building on what we have been doing."
The Australian international has found himself playing in a more defensive-minded midfield role for the Bluebirds throughout pre-season, and commented on this subtle switch of position.
“I enjoy it! At Manchester City when I was younger it was the same formation as it is now, and I played in the six, eight and ten. I learnt from it when I was younger to play every position in midfield, so I will play wherever I am asked to play.”
Watch more from Alex, Brian Barry-Murphy and Gabe Osho on Cardiff City TV.