Bristol City’s unbeaten run ended by Oxford United

The latest Bristol sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.

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00:00Bristol City's unbeaten run at the start of the championship season finally came to

00:05an end at the hands of Oxford United, who won against the Robins by three goals to one.

00:11It's a bad day in our home stadium. I would say we invest a lot today. We were in fighting

00:23mode and the boys were in especially set-pieces moments today, not on this level what we normally

00:31know from the boys. Today we concede three goals over set-piece. This is, in the end,

00:37not our standard. We are very disappointed in this way. We had also a couple of good chances

00:43in the first half, but we were not ready and sharp enough to use these moments for ourselves.

00:50In the end, we could see today how difficult can be the championship when you be not in all faces

00:57on a top level. I know you mentioned in the week how tight the Oxford games had been in

01:02their previous games, having not won, and how hard is it when they go 1-0 up to try and break them down?

01:07Yes, of course. This is, in the end, always difficult, but also we can deal with that.

01:12And in the Women's Rugby World Cup, England reached the final, defeating France in the

01:17semi-final by 35 points to 17. I think you need to give France respect in the way that they are

01:23always going to respond after the adversity that they experienced. I thought they were fabulous,

01:29they were very emotional in their warm-up. We always knew that they were going to come

01:33with that, and you have to respect the World Cup semi-final. We had to work our way

01:39to be able to create pressure back on them. They were starting to create pressure on us,

01:45probably more through our own doing through cumulative error. We weren't quite as accurate

01:50as we needed to be at that point. But it's a credit to the girls, the way that they came out in the

01:55second half and broke them. I always said to the girls, this game would take a lot longer.

02:01It was a lot about just sticking to our process. I think that was the main thing that we've kind

02:05of been speaking about all week, and it was just staying calm. We know how to beat France,

02:11but we just had to stick to that process and put it into plan.