"The only thing I can control is the way the players feel and approach the game and with a day's turnaround from Saturday maybe I should have sensed something with the personnel. We are searching for different ways to get a little bit more happiness in their own bodies before Saturday.
"I am always honest, maybe too honest at times in terms of how I talk. I thought a few were a little bit flat tonight in terms of being scolded from the weekend, were a little bit low on the back of their performance or how the game panned out at the weekend. We just weren't there with the intent to start the game. The goals are a frustrating aspect and shows a little bit of weakness through the spine of the team. We were overrun in certain parts. It comes down to quality and execution, something we have been short in for too long I am afraid."
“We got back into the game with a ball where we actually needed to put it. But then to allow a striker of Ched’s ability time to turn and make that finish – that was the difference tonight.
“In terms of what I wanted the outcome to be that’s certainly not what I wanted.
“Maybe I should have sensed a bit of flatness in certain personnel, but that’s the players we’ve got to play."
“We had to ride our luck in the first 15 minutes of the second half, we had to change the formation, but we didn’t have a handle on the way they were playing,” he said.
“It comes down to execution, something we’re missing at the minute.”
“We know it will go down to the wire, we expect that, I cannot control what happens elsewhere,”