Salim Kouider-Aissa hopes his strike in Airdrie's 5-0 thumping of Clyde final weekend means his damage woes are behind him and he can seize a beginning place towards Alloa this night.
The Diamonds journey to the Indodrill to face Brian Rice's Wasps within the SPFL Belief Trophy third spherical tonight and 26-year-old striker Kouider-Aissa hopes to have performed sufficient to impress boss Rhys McCabe.
Having endured 9 months out with a knee damage, the previous Queen's Park star could be very a lot on the mend, with two targets in seven video games this season.
Kouider-Aissa, who netted 9 minutes after climbing off the bench in 81 minutes on Saturday, informed Airdrie's web site: "I am feeling good, coaching properly, and it was clearly good to get a objective on the weekend, get on the pitch and get a couple of minutes.
"I simply have to construct up the minutes after which hopefully begin seeking to begin video games.
"It has been a very long time I have been out, clearly I desire being across the squad and taking part in on a Saturday.
"Hopefully it will be a superb alternative on Friday within the cup.
"My health in coaching is there. Sport-time hasn't come the best way I wished it to, however I am simply being affected person and because the video games come it can hopefully construct up.
"I simply have to knuckle down, preserve my head down and preserve working exhausting in coaching."
Airdrie beat Alloa 2-0 at New Broomfield on August 20, however Kouider-Aissa expects a tricky sport.
He mentioned: "It is a group in our league so it is positively going to be a tricky sport.
"They are not going to be any pushovers. We have to go there, work exhausting and graft, put the work in, and hopefully we'll be rewarded for it.
"The boys have been taking part in properly, and it was good to bounce again from a not-so-good outcome a few weeks in the past.
"We have a superb rhythm and hopefully the boys that are available on Friday night time will do a job for us."
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