Gary Breen
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And then I would counter that again by saying, but then you've got space either side of your centre backs.
And then again, the answer again, I'm always kind of countering myself and thinking, well, all right, get a defensive line higher up the pitch to condense the area of the team again.
And then I just remember straight away, Armenia away.
This team can't cope with space.
This is the problem that you have, is that you're always robbing Peter to pay Paul.
You fix one problem, another one rears its head.
But I didn't feel any of those problems were relative to this particular game in Prague.
I do think they are relative going forward, but I still think we were good enough and in control to have seen that result.
You think of that first corner, Dan, it was coming in in terms of how quickly after going 2-0 up.
And you may kind of think, well, we've delayed the restart a little bit because I was watching on the telly and as soon as we scored the goal in the celebrations, all of a sudden the camera cuts back to the game.
We're giving away a corner.
I'm thinking, what's happened there?
Why couldn't we delay it a little bit?
But then the makeup of it was they set up, they've got all our big guys in that six-yard box, zonal marking, physical presence, all good at attacking the ball.
But you could see straight away Ogbeni,
James Coleman and Manning were panic stations.
They were pointing at each other.
Who's got who?
I don't know who I'm supposed to be blocking.
And in that moment of a little bit of panic, it sets in.