DANILO Orsi believes “underdogs” AFC Wimbledon are “surprising people” after their 2-0 win over Blackpool at Bloomfield Road lifted them into fifth place in League One.
Orsi scored in either half against Steve Bruce’s side, his first league goals for the Dons after his summer switch from Burton Albion.
Johnnie Jackson’s side have won seven of their eleven league games this season, losing the other four, and are just four points off leaders Stevenage after cutting the gap to the second-place Tangerines to three points.
It was only Orsi’s second league start of the season.
“I’ve just been waiting for my opportunity,” Orsi said. “He has been great with me, the whole staff have, and I just wanted to go out there and show everyone why the club fought so hard to bring me here in the summer.
“I like to think that was just a little snippet and hopefully from here I can kick on.”
Wimbledon have won five games in a row in all competitions, four in the league, and seven of their ten league games since their 1-0 opening-day defeat to Luton Town at Kenilworth Road.
“We spoke about what happened last week against Wycombe Wanderers. We held on to it there, but we didn’t want to sink in and kind of invite the pressure on,” Orsi said.
“So we tried to get pressure on high up to stop the initial ball forward and I thought we’d done well in the second half defending it, and then to get the second kind of gave us a bit more breathing room and the boys were fantastic to see it out at the end.
“We’ve had some good performances this season. I think we’re surprising a few people and I think that’s the mentality in the dressing room.
“We’re the underdogs and we’re just going to keep going about our work silently and just keep picking up points and putting in performances like that and see what can happen.”
The Dons host Port Vale at Plough Lane this Saturday at 3pm.
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