00:00Now the late goal conceded, more points from?
00:03Yeah, sums it up quite well. I think we're hugely frustrated with ourselves really.
00:08That was a game where we had to work really hard for the first goal.
00:14I thought we were the dominant team and knocking on the door through the first half,
00:19the goal came when it came and felt then we were in a strong position having been relatively comfortable defensively
00:28to then concede the two goals in the way that we did and the manner that we did is hugely disappointing
00:33because we pride ourselves on being better than that defensively.
00:36Again, your call for consistency is not a bad performance by any means.
00:40It's not a consistent result that you had that opportunity to really start building a better team.
00:45Yeah, and that's why it's frustrating in so many ways because I agree.
00:48I think four performances since the last international break have been really strong.
00:53The defeat in Marseille was strong, today was strong, maybe not the highs of Everton but good.
00:59And we had an opportunity to grab another positive result and we didn't take it.
01:04And when you add that to some of the other points that we've lost late in games,
01:07it's really cost us in our league position and there's no denying that those points added back to us
01:12would put us in a lot stronger position.
01:15Well to Scott, Craig and then Lee please.
01:17Eddie, we've kind of praised the team a lot here for when they're kind of really at it
01:22and intense and almost caused chaos.
01:25The other side of the game is obviously control and just take the sting out of the game.
01:29Is that maybe something that you could be better at, you need to be a little bit better at?
01:34Is that fair?
01:35Yeah, I think I'd agree with that.
01:36A technically second half.
01:37I don't think we were particularly good, especially when we were leading.
01:42You know, when you're leading and you've got the advantage, one or two really quality passes
01:49in different moments can make the difference and we went the other way.
01:53We ended up turning the ball over and becoming in transition far too much in that period of the game.
01:58And ultimately that's probably contributed to the fact that we lost territory
02:03and we lost ability to get up the pitch.
02:05And that's certainly something for us to look at and to try and find a solution to.
02:11Craig?
02:12Good to hear me.
02:13Most of us guys had our head down doing rewrites when that rise went in.
02:16Can you talk to us about what happened?
02:18It seemed a bizarre concession from your perspective as a coach.
02:21How did it come down?
02:22It bounced through bodies, arms, later reactions.
02:24What happened?
02:25I don't really know Craig, to be honest.
02:28I haven't seen it again yet.
02:29So I'm just reliving it in my head continually live.
02:34It looked like we didn't get a good first contact on the first ball in.
02:37Because really, of course, that first contact is so important.
02:41You want to clear your box.
02:42You want to get the danger away.
02:43We've allowed Romero to get an overhead kick in the box, which from that distance,
02:48I don't think the ball should go in.
02:49It's gone through a melee of bodies, looking for someone to block it.
02:53It didn't happen and it's gone in the corner.
02:55It was almost slow motion, wasn't it?
02:57I'm sure from your angle it was the same as mine.
02:59Very painful.
03:01I'll go to the league, please.
03:03I hear you talk about the league position.
03:05I think at the moment alone, Lee, it's cost you six places and the table pool would be
03:10so, you know, so it's very high margin.
03:14Not sure I needed to hear that, Lee.
03:17Yeah.
03:18And the league is so tight.
03:20We know that.
03:21And that's why three consecutive wins was our target tonight.
03:25And we were a few minutes from getting it.
03:27But I suppose that's the Premier League.
03:31That's what makes it the league that it is.
03:32That's what makes football so dramatic and why we're all obsessed by it.
03:36So you have to take the rough with the smooth.
03:38We've felt a bit of pain in these moments before this season.
03:41We've got to try and get on the right side of them.
03:44And is there such a thing as being there for the taking?
03:48The way they came into the game, all of them.
03:51So that went all against football.
03:53You look vulnerable and it feels that we just didn't take that opportunity.
03:58Yeah, I mean, I think I've got to try and see it for what it is.
04:04Well, not for what it isn't.
04:05I think the lads tried to take the game.
04:07We could certainly have done with scoring in that first half when we were on top and dominant.
04:10And there were moments in games that always swing it one way or the other.
04:14And the first goal seemed like it wasn't going to come for us when, for me,
04:20the opportunities were there for us to take it.
04:22But then once we get in front, we've got to do better.
04:25We've got to be more savvy in navigating that moment,
04:27especially with such little time left on the clock.
04:29So I think that's ultimately what's cost us the way.
04:31Just a quick one on, Cassandra or was there anything wrong with it?
04:34Yeah, he took a knock in the first half.
04:36I don't quite know the extent of the injury or what type of injury it is,
04:39but he couldn't continue.
04:40We've got to Jordan.
04:41George and Daniel, please.
04:42Jordan?
04:43Yes.
04:44Nothing but 11 points dropped from in positions.
04:46I mean, yeah, I'm not how frustrating it was happening.
04:48Don't you?
04:49Yeah, it's a real strange one.
04:51Sometimes these things go in cycles and happen and you can't quite work them out like our
04:57away form.
04:58And this is another one.
04:59You know, we've historically been very good at seeing games out, navigating tough situations,
05:05managing the game.
05:07We've got to try and refine that quickly because it's costing us important points.
05:12And today, set plays, I don't think we were particularly good at set plays in either box today.
05:19And that's disappointing.
05:21You touched on that.
05:22There are quite a few late goals tonight that Apu lost Brighton.
05:25Why?
05:26Why?
05:27Why?
05:28Is it also conceding late goals?
05:29Can you both think about why that's happened?
05:30Well, I think you can look back at each moment and sort of identify a mistake or a part of
05:37the team not doing its job.
05:39So the job for us is to obviously coach the team to be better in those situations.
05:44And that's what we'll endeavor to do.
05:45But sometimes it becomes psychological.
05:47Sometimes it becomes a fear of conceding.
05:50And then you do concede.
05:51There's so much that goes into it.
05:52But we've got to find ways when we're in front to be better.
05:56And usually our best form of defense is to attack.
05:58And I encourage us to do that all the time.
06:01Sometimes you have to accept that you're not in that position in the game to do it.
06:05And you just have to see it out and defend better.
06:07I think today was one of those moments and we didn't do it.
06:10George?
06:11Yeah, that was kind of going to be my question really.
06:13But do you think it's a theme or is it a failing?
06:17I think it's definitely a failing.
06:19I mean, we have to take the, you can't sit here and go, I can't sit here and go,
06:24everything's okay in that respect.
06:26It's happened too many times this season.
06:27That doesn't mean we can't figure it out and put it right very quickly.
06:32But today is really, it's a set piece.
06:35It's a moment and those moments happen in football.
06:39They've been on the other end of it at times.
06:42And yeah, individual errors usually from set plays hurt you and that's what happened.
06:49You said before that momentum is, it's kind of just a little bit elusive this season.
06:56Is it honestly the frustration you're in?
06:59Yeah, we feel like we're trying to grapple to get it and we're sort of letting it drop through our fingers at times.
07:06But I think the last four performances give me real hope because the general level of performance has been consistent.
07:14The results haven't.
07:15Marseille, I think we deserve more today.
07:16I think we deserve more.
07:17We didn't get it, but I'm heartened by the fact that we're playing well and we're playing much better.
07:21And if we continue that, I think the results will be there.
07:24There's always be some pain along the way.
07:26That's part of football.
07:27You have to take it and make sure that you're on an upward trajectory, which I think we are.
07:32Daniel Markham and Kieran to finish, please.
07:35Eddie, again, a bunch of the City against Marseille.
07:37You were having a lot of chances against Everton.
07:40You were clinical.
07:41So was it perhaps a surprise, especially with Bergstaff,
07:43that you didn't quite create those clear club openings despite some of the Bulldogs?
07:47Yeah, I think it was a strange one because I thought we were dominant.
07:52We weren't cutting them open and creating the opportunities that were sort of must-score moments.
07:57But I think we've ended up having just shy of 20 shots today.
08:00I think we have been dominant in that respect.
08:02But I think in part that's due to how Tottenham played.
08:05They were very compact, very low.
08:07They were there to make the game difficult for us.
08:09But again, the challenge for us is to be better.
08:12It was a good performance without being our very best.
08:15On our perhaps more positive note, the impact made by Anthony Broden and Bruno Goraes coming on.
08:19Substitutes, I suppose, despite the concession that it's on.
08:22They are real positives or what it did to us.
08:24Yeah, I think all the guys that came on the pitch made a difference.
08:27Positive difference.
08:28I'd expect them to.
08:29They're outstanding players.
08:31I think the two Antonys added pace and dynamism to our performance at a time when we really needed it.
08:38Bruno scored a fantastic goal.
08:40I'm disappointed that we didn't get over the line because I think then it would have been a really good night for us.
08:46Mark?
08:47You seem quite downbeat tonight, obviously, and Stanley.
08:52How close do you think you are to being the team that you can be?
08:55Given the force is actually pretty good, is it?
08:59Yeah, I think we're moving in the right direction.
09:02I don't know.
09:03I feel definitely more positive about the team than I was before the international break.
09:08I think we look fitter.
09:09I think we look like we've got good athleticism.
09:13We've got people in the right areas.
09:15I think the form of the individual players is improving.
09:17Confidence is slowly returning.
09:19That's why today is so disappointing because, naturally, confidence will be dented by that as part of the rollercoaster of results.
09:30I still feel we've got more to come and I still feel we can get better.
09:33I still feel the best is yet to come.
09:36I think that's a good thing for us.
09:37It's a long season.
09:38We've got so many games to try and put things right, but we need to continue to evolve to improve.
09:43Could we see you on Saturday or was that I'm dealing too early?
09:47I don't know.
09:48We'll see how the week goes.
09:49We've got a lot more training to do yet, so let's see.
09:53Kieran to finish, please.
09:54What's the feeling of the dresser most of the week?
09:57Made you in confidence again about King City and everything?
10:02Yeah, I think there's a lot of disappointment and probably frustration is the right emotion, I think.
10:06I think a bit of anger and frustration is never a bad thing.
10:10Frustrated ourselves, no one else.
10:12Frustrated at our delivery of what we did in the latter stages of the game.
10:17Hopefully we can use that to help us.
10:20Did you pick up the penalty?
10:23Yeah, I'd just seen it again there when I was getting interviewed.
10:26I think the defender doesn't look at the ball.
10:28I think he's just focused on Dan and Dan goes down so I could see what it was given.
10:32Thanks everyone.
10:34See you soon.
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