Dave Jones
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Struggled to keep the ball ourselves as well as we should have done, as well as we had been doing.
And then second half, I wasn't very happy.
We offered them too many chances to counter-attack.
We didn't have enough calmness on the ball to keep the ball and move it and switch the play.
And by doing that, we allowed them right back into the game.
Why do you think that happened?
What was behind it?
We can only look at ourselves.
It's early in the season and out of the performances we've had, I've been delighted with big passages of having the ball and moving it.
I think today, once the pressure came from them and they set up to get after us, we didn't have enough angles, enough options to keep the ball and move it.
As I say, we were doing it in the first half, camped in there half for the first 20, 25 minutes and then we need to be ready.
When the game changes, you need to grab it back and we allowed it to go, which we need to have a bit more personality about us because we've got that.
We saw that in midweek, but today we didn't quite have it.
The way you set up, you like your team to be attacking.
So will you be, will be an element of you that is a little bit open?
No, not like we were in the second half because that's not, you know, you can attack but still be in positions that if you turn the ball over then you don't allow the counter-attack that we allowed today in the second half.
So no, I'm not here to play incredible attacking football when everything's great and then concede counter-attacks or easy goals when it's not.
That's for us.
We have to improve.
This will be a process.