Hat-trick hero Munday hungry for more after first Edgar Street appearance

George Munday celebrates his third

Hat-trick hero George Munday led Hereford to a thrilling 5-1 win over Leamington at Edgar Street, marking the Bulls’ first home game in two months with a statement performance in front of nearly 2,500 fans.

The 19-year-old striker opened the scoring for Hereford before adding goals three and four, securing his first senior hat-trick, and helping turn an early setback into a convincing victory as the phoenix club fights to avoid its first relegation.

"Scoring goals, there's no feeling like it in football, especially for a striker," the buzzing Cambridge United striker told the media after his first game at Edgar Street, admitting he was now hungry to score more in front of the Bulls' fans.

"It's what you judged off at the end of the day. To score in front of that many here is yes, incredible feeling. It makes it feel even better and makes me hungry to score more."

The Bulls are now playing at least twice a week for the rest of the season as they play catch-up. With the Edgar Street pitch problems hopefully behind them, two more home games follow with top sides South Shields and AFC Fylde next up.

"I want to play every minute of every game," he said. "But we've still got 16 games left in a short amount of time. Like we're playing Saturday, Tuesday or next week, Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday.

"So there's so many games coming up and that's what the gaffer said, we've got to rotate.

"We've got a really good squad."

The game got off to a slow start, particularly as Hereford struggled to string passes together and a defensive error gifted Leamington the opener inside five minutes.

Munday said: "Obviously, it was a slow start. Not really much reasoning behind it, but I think their goal definitely woke us up.

"I think we were quite relaxed. I's not the first time in the last few weeks we've done that, against Chester we went down very early as well and then came back and scored five that night as well.

"I think we knew that if we played to our best tonight, then we'd have the quality to win the game, and it was just about being patient.

"As soon as we got the equaliser, I think we all kind of had that feeling that we were going to go score more and we were going to go win the game."