HE MAY have scored in every round of the FA Cup this season, but Padraig Amond would gladly draw a blank tonight and see one of his teammates take the glory if it meant a win for Newport County.

After scoring against Met Police, Wrexham and Leicester City, the 30-year-old Irishman smashed home County’s second in the 2-0 fourth-round replay defeat of Middlesbrough.

A man for the big occasion – he also netted in the 1-1 draw with Spurs last season – Amond knows chances will be hard to come by when County meet Manchester City this evening.

In fact, Amond reckons the round five clash at Rodney Parade is “bigger than David versus Goliath” such is the gulf between the two clubs.

Premier League leaders City are overwhelming favourites, but Amond doesn’t believe the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

“You have to believe you can win,” he said. “There are two teams going up against each other and sometimes miracles happen. Now again there are big shocks and if we win it would be the biggest shock in FA Cup history.

“The gulf between the two clubs is huge – it’s bigger than David versus Goliath!

“We’re going to put in a performance we can be proud of, break the game down, keep it 0-0 for as long as possible and then try and catch them, even if it takes 120 minutes and penalties.”

And when asked what it would mean to score against Pep Guardiola’s big guns, he added: “It would be a brilliant feeling, but you want to win games.

“If I go 90 minutes and touch the ball once and someone else scores the winner for us then I would be the happiest person in the ground.

“Games like this don’t come around every other week for us. You’re hoping you score but you want it to be a significant goal in terms of getting a positive result. Chances are going to be very few in this game so when you get one you have to take it.”

On his Boro goal, he said: “For a split second, I was the only person in the whole ground or watching the game on TV who knew where the ball was going.

“I knew the second I hit the ball it was going into the net, and if you could bottle that moment and sell it, you’d make a lot of money.

“That split-second was probably one of the best moments I’ve had in football.”