Alan Pardew

Does it hurt you to say that, that their aggression was too much for your players?

Well, in that particular period, that's not like us.

We usually start the games really strongly and we've got to look at our record.

It was an unusual start for us and obviously the goals went in quite quickly and that rocked our confidence a little bit.

The second half we couldn't have done any more really.

and a blatant penalty at 3-1 would have been a good time for us.

Which one do you mean?

Because there was a couple of shouts, actually.

Yeah, I thought the one on Scott Dan was an obvious one.

He's going to head that in, and he's just charged in the back of Scott Dan.

That's a definite penalty, in my opinion, and I thought he should have seen that, and I asked him why he didn't see it.

He said he was attracted by somebody else.

I don't know, but I was disappointed with that.

But, you know, in terms of the performance, second half was first class, but we can't start climbing like that.

How do you explain that first half performance?

What did you say to them at half-time?

Well, obviously what I said at half-time will stay between those four walls, but it wasn't good enough.

Anyway, we showed second half that we are good enough and we're more than good enough to get results to stay in this division.

But now that result puts us a little bit under pressure and of course we haven't had a result for a while.

So that's going to increase and we have to deal with that and we have to get something on Tuesday night.