What went wrong today?
I think the first half was even enough, we had enough of the play, we had enough of the chances. We conceded a bad goal but there's nothing there I didn't think we couldn't overcome. But the second half after we conceded the second one we just didn't reach the levels of intensity and tempo we've had all year. Then it was very hard for us to get any kind of control or traction in the game. It seemed like we were chasing the whole time. It was a disappointing night for us.
Why do you think the team didn't harness the momentum of last weekend's performance?
I don't buy into that sort of stuff. It's a different game, it's a different challenge. It's not like you start this game a goal up because you won last week. I think if you fall into that trap of thinking that what you did last week is going to help you this week it just doesn't work this way.
To be fair to the players, it's the first time this year where I've felt, especially in the second half, that we just didn't...we're in the position we are because every week we've been really, really competitive in every aspect of the game and even in our losses I've felt like we've hit certain markers in terms of our endeavour and competitiveness and I though that it was missing today and that was disappointing.
This was the first time your team hasn't scored in the Premier League, why do you think that was?
We had enough chances to score so I didn't think that was the issue. I don't think that's the issue for us. It wasn't about scoring. If we'd scored today it's meaningless. It's more about other the things that are important and have been important to us all year, because irrespective of our performance fluctuation, our competitive levels and our ability
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