Ivan Toney explains pondering behind his ‘1000 IQ’ free kick in emotional interview on Brentford return

Ivan Toney defined the pondering behind his unimaginable ‘1000 IQ’ free kick in his first post-match interview for nearly 9 months.

It was a much-needed win for Thomas Frank’s aspect, who had misplaced their final 5 Premier League matches.

Objectives from Ben Mee and Neal Maupay secured victory for Brentford, both aspect of Chris Wooden’s shut vary strike on 65 minutes for Forest.

It wasn’t solely Toney’s free kick – his first aim since April – that caught the eye, however the method through which it was scored.

The 27-year-old curled his effort across the Forest wall and into the underside proper nook past goalkeeper Matt Turner.

However one eagle-eyed fan noticed how he moved the ball by a yard after Forest had arrange their wall – with no-one from the opposing staff, or seemingly the officers, recognizing it.

From there, Toney struck his effort completely to search out the again of the web.

He stated: “I follow them in coaching – everybody batters me after I put them within the stands within the automobile park, however I delivered, in order that was good.

“I feel you usually have a yard both approach, and I simply moved it and bent it across the nook.

“I am grateful it went in, and I am grateful to be again there with the lads. I’ve missed them a lot, the followers, everybody. I am again.”

He additionally spoke of how he felt about returning to the pitch for the primary time this season – and his delight for Maupay in scoring the winner.

“He stated: 100 per cent [struggling towards the end]. I felt it coming to the seventieth minute, I needed to get a gel.

“However the adrenaline, listening to the followers screaming, realizing you are in a profitable place, there isn’t any higher feeling. No higher feeling.

“We labored laborious at present. We have been grafting, although we have been dropping, we have been grafting. The boys deserved it.

“I am glad for Neal [Maupay], as a result of he works laborious in coaching, we have a partnership and I hope we will rating a lot of targets collectively.

“It means so much [coming back]. It has been a very long time coming. I manifested this [the goal], across the time I used to be out. I am right here now, and I am simply buzzing to be again scoring targets and profitable with the staff.

“I manifested issues like this. Earlier than the sport, earlier than I left my home, I assumed, ‘Yeah, we’re profitable at present and I am scoring’. I made it occur, so it is good.”