Gary Breen

And we're not going to work up on the back of it.

Well, there's been so many generalisations in terms of the analysis and the 5-4-1 shape in terms of how defensive it is that it gives the kind of emphasis to the other team.

I never felt that, Joe.

This is one of the rare occasions I was watching the game thinking, this is so comfortable.

But I just felt, and the only reason I felt that the pressure kind of succumbed a bit to us was the fact that in putting balls into the box, which we defended comfortably, I thought the lads were brilliant, especially O'Shea.

I thought he was immense.

I just felt that

if we kept giving away set pieces, the way we were marking, the way those lads were blocking, I thought we were going to get a little bit in trouble here.

And I couldn't for the life of me understand why, if Manning was struggling so much against Graeci, who was brilliant in both boxes in terms of winning first contact, why didn't Coleman swap with him?

Why didn't the coaches say, listen, you're struggling a little bit, let me take him?

So often in games where you're defending set pieces, I would have been...

designate whoever the best header of the ball was.

But if he wasn't really competing, someone else was quickly saying, I need to go on him or something like that.

And I just thought that little bit there is where we kind of lost ourselves a little bit in terms of that.

I know a lot of people now say, if you go to the different variation of that 5-4-1, if you go 5-3-2 and you've got those two centre forwards out there, there's an outlet then.

I don't buy into that in that game.

I felt we were comfortably strong in terms of the set-up.

And I would always ask the question that if you then put two up front, you've got one less in midfield and space opens up.

And then people can counter that by saying, okay, push your wing backs higher up and they can go alongside the midfielders.

You condense it then.