We started brightly enough, but again we make a mistake and when you do that you get punished at this level, |
We were hopeless in the first-half, nowhere near our best and insipid, but better in the second-half and it was more like a Cup-tie and I thought we might just nick a goal to win it. |
We will have to rotate because there were a lot of tired legs after the game and there simply isn't the recovery time. The side we put out will be going to win the game. |
We're not talking about Europe. |
We're not talking about Europe. We don't want to talk about what is ahead of us. What we have done is earned the right for people to talk about us that way, although we won't be getting carried away. |
We've asked again but with the price they're asking, it's silly money as they don't want to sell him. |
We've asked again but with the price they're asking, it's silly money as they don't want to sell him. I understand that. Just because we're doing well and because the chairman (Dave Whelan) has got a few quid, I'm not going to pay too far over the odds for players, and at that price we won't be interested. |
We've had a fantastic season so far but I won't stand for people patting themselves on the back. |
You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage. |
You have to take this game in context. We haven't got a striker in the building so we weren't going to make many chances, but we pushed them all the way. This is a team who were in the Second Division three years ago and now we are losing 1-0 to the European champions. |
You just got the impression it was one of those nights. |