Football Struber 'not dreaming' yet of top-two finish this season

BRISTOL City are “ready for more” after their win over Sheffield Wednesday, Gerhard Struber has insisted, but the Robins boss claims he and his players are “not dreaming” amid suggestions they could challenge for automatic promotion this term.

- Dan CARTER

The Robins climbed to third in the table as they stretched their unbeaten start to the Championship campaign to five matches with a 3-0 win over Henrik Pedersen’s Owls at Hillsborough on Saturday afternoon. An early own goal from Harry Amass, as well as first-half strikes from Emil Riis and Anis Mehmeti, proved to be enough for Struber’s side to secure all three points.

Although they took their foot off the gas after the break, the Robins flexed their attacking muscles in the first half of the game in particular. Mehmeti, Riis, and Scott Twine combined to cause the home side plenty of problems, and had City been more clinical, they could have won by an even more comfortable margin.

Over the course of the first five games of the season, only Coventry City have scored more goals than the Robins’ 12, and only two other teams - the Sky Blues and Stoke - also remain unbeaten. After last season’s top-six finish, Struber has been encouraged by the early signs but is by no means getting ahead of himself.