York bent Iron to their will with Brobbel’s aid

The struggling Minstermen produced the perfect opening half to race into a 4-0 interval lead against a side seeking three points to move into the automatic League Two promotion positions.

The Middlesbrough winger, on loan until early January, led the way in the eventual 4-1 success over the Iron with two fine goals, with his stunning 
40th-minute volley which completed the haul one which all home fans present will remember for many years to come.

Brobbel wreaked havoc on the left, just as fellow scorer Josh Carson, also 20, did on the right, and the Hartlepool-born player says it can be a platform for a concerted push up the table.

Commenting on an emphatic win for York, who claimed their first win in five matches, Brobbel said: “In some games, you don’t get any luck at all. But everything just seemed to fall for us on Tuesday and we were getting chance after chance and all the goals were high quality.

“I think we have always had it in us, and in training we’ve just thought that the big performance was coming. “Everything just clicked and hopefully we can take it onto Cheltenham on Saturday.

“We need to get up the league because this time last season we had a lot more points.”

On his picture-book strike from Luke O’Neill’s cross, he added: “I just took a chance really and the gaffer is always telling me to come into the box and if you don’t do that, you are not going to score. I caught it sweet and to score a goal like that is one of the best feelings I could have wished for.”

Brobbel is making a name for himself at York, just as his Boro team-mate Ben Gibson did in early 2012, and the winger hopes to follow the defender’s path into the first-team reckoning on Teesside.

Former Boro manager Tony Mowbray had monitored Brobbel’s progress with the Minstermen, and he and his staff were regulars at home games.

Brobbel hopes that he can impress the new man in charge at Boro – whoever it is.

Brobbel added: “This is my last season (contract) and hopefully the new manager will like me and there will be a few more good words about me if I am doing well.

“If he (Mowbray) was still manager, I am sure he’d have been here on Tuesday, although a few of the other staff were here. He watched the kids all the way.

“It’s always been a club for young players with people like (Stewart) Downing and (Lee) Cattermole doing well.

“But I am just happy at York at the moment, playing first-team football.”