Saturday’s goalscorer Alan Vezza is looking forward to the test of higher league opposition as Clydebank take on Kirkintilloch Rob Roy tonight in the quarter-final of the Sectional League Cup.

Vezza scored the crucial goal against Ashfield at the weekend, which meant the Bankies progressed over local rivals Yoker and reached the quarter-final stage of the cup.

It is a repeat fixture from last year, where Rob Roy were 2-0 victors over the Bankies, but the 26-year-old is hoping luck is on their side this time around.

He said: “It’s against a team in the league above us, and these are the games you want to be playing in.

“I think up until now the teams we’ve played are at our level or a bit below our level so that doesn’t really show where we’re at to be honest. Hopefully we can go on to have a good season, it’s a good challenge.

“We were unlucky against them (last season), they had a wee bit more on the day and we’ll hopefully make that right on Wednesday.”

And while the civil engineering student is looking forward to the game tonight, he says the focus for this season has to be the league.

He added: “The season’s not started yet, the main focus is the league but any sort of cup is a bonus.

“Everything you go into you want to win and it’s always nice playing against a team in the league above us. It will be a good test for us and show where we’re at as a team.”

The utility player returned to Clydebank last year after stints in America and in England, and he insists the lessons he learned on and off the pitch have helped make him a better player.

He said: “It was brilliant, I left Scotland when I was about 19 or 20. Obviously it’s a bit life lesson when you go away to live by yourself, I was playing full-time football and went and got an education over there as well.

“It was great in many respects, and it certainly helped me football wise when you’re playing full-time. It’s only going to make you a better player.”

Vezza added: “I thoroughly enjoyed it (my time abroad) and I moved back, I moved down south as well which was a good experience.

“I’m still only 26 but I’ve got a good bit of experience behind me and we’ve got a young team as well so it’s good to guide some of the younger boys as well.”

Vezza, who now studies civil engineering as well as juggling a part-time job and playing with the Bankies, has no regrets about not chasing full-time football.

He added: “I was at that stage where I wasn’t chasing it, I wasn’t wanting to be a full-time football player I was happy to be playing with a local team and I was at that stage where I do it for my enjoyment.

“I was with Partick Thistle when I was younger and it didn’t quite work out.

“But football has been very good to me.

“I got to go to America out of it, I played down in London and it’s just more for enjoyment.”