Alton manager Kevin Adair post-Reading City

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00:01Kevin, a penalty shootout for you against Reading City in the League Cup,

00:04but you created plenty of chances there to win that match, really, didn't you?

00:08Yeah, I think we've got to be going in more than one up, for sure.

00:12There's a huge chance on 45 minutes that probably changes the game a little bit.

00:19But then there's been, I think we've hit the ball twice, two chances or one-on-one.

00:24You know, they weren't just half chances, they were big chances,

00:27but we looked comfortable, we played some really good football first half,

00:30we were actually really good.

00:32It was probably one of our better performances.

00:34We've not been bad, but we've not sort of finished when we needed to.

00:38The difference was we had two or three half chances we didn't take,

00:42kept going and there was a really good passage of play

00:45and Josh Milo and Anne Gale Zapata in the first half were really effective

00:50and they were both involved in the goal.

00:53So I was going in 1-0 and then we came out

00:56and there was another two or three chances for us to probably go ahead

01:00and two goal lead, didn't get it.

01:03And then Merrifield probably scores the more difficult header

01:06and 2-0 we were probably cruising.

01:09And for a side that's lacking confidence and wins,

01:13cruising's a difficult position to be in

01:15because you don't really know how to cruise, how to control the game.

01:18And then I think the problem was the two goals for us came from us having possession

01:25in our defensive third and giving it up too easily.

01:30We've said that we needed to get to second balls and track back better in the transition,

01:37which we have, but you don't have a chance to do that if you lose it in your defensive third.

01:41So, you know, and that's from loss of possession and then a pass just going straight to their players

01:48and then making it too easy for them.

01:50The two goals were soft from our point of giving the ball away

01:53and also soft from our point defensively once we'd given the ball away as well.

01:57Yeah, I guess, as you say, you summed it all up really accurately there.

02:01I mean, you know, there's obviously going to be frustration with that,

02:04but you say you played some really nice football and created plenty,

02:06but it is those margins, isn't it, of being clinical, getting the third,

02:10and then, as you say, just coughing up possession a couple of times in your own third

02:13and getting punished really, isn't it?

02:15Yeah, look, and when it goes to penalties, it is what it is.

02:18But we've also got to say that we've missed three from six as well,

02:22which is, listen, you're not critical when it gets to that stage

02:25because it is one of those things, but if you're missing half of them,

02:29you're going to struggle to go through at that point

02:31and it shouldn't really have got to that point, that's the thing.

02:34So, again, we've got some questions to ask.

02:36We now don't play Saturday, which is probably not a good thing

02:40because, you know, we go to Guildford next Wednesday

02:43who have just started picking up results

02:45and that'll be a tough away trip, especially for a team

02:48that's struggling to get a result like us.

02:51But, you know, I think there needs to be a bit of accountability this week.

02:56It's not often that I ask people to step forward and say stuff,

02:59but I expect to hear from a couple this week and say I've played a part in that

03:03because there was just a couple of things that are just not acceptable,

03:06especially in the way that things are going for us.

03:09It's like, you know, I don't mind people trying things and taking risks, etc.

03:13But there's a time and a place on the pitch where you do it

03:16and some of the things weren't even risks.

03:19It was more just really bad decisions.

03:22And at this level, you can't do it.

03:24You just can't do it.

03:25And then I think the two goals, we've not got tight enough

03:28and we've not made enough effort to stop it.

03:32As you say now, it's over a week to that Guildford game next Wednesday, isn't it?

03:36So how's the programme sort of looking, sort of building up towards that then?

03:41Well, we don't play Saturday, so we'll train on Thursday.

03:45And then obviously we normally train Tuesday and Thursday.

03:47So we're unlikely to train Tuesday next week with the game on the Wednesday.

03:52So really, we need to get in here Thursday, get around each other,

03:56do things properly, set up, do the things that we want to look to try and do on Wednesday,

04:01which won't be much different from what we've done today.

04:03It'll be a more difficult pitch, obviously.

04:06But it's work ethic for us, really, rather than quality on the ball.

04:10You know, I'll forgive people not having top quality all the time.

04:14I just can't forgive work rate.

04:16And tonight, the work rate was pretty good.

04:19It just come down to some poor decisions and maybe some match fitness.

04:24And, you know, listen, it's maybe I should have made a couple of changes earlier.

04:27I don't know. It's one of them.

04:29You make a change and then something happens and you wish you hadn't.

04:32And then you don't make a change.

04:34You think you probably should have done something.

04:35So, again, I'm accountable as well.

04:38But I'm looking at a couple of individuals that probably got to sort of just go,

04:42yeah, I've made a pause up there.

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