Graeme Souness
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The whole thing, they'd lost their way in the game after 15 minutes.
And then the player getting sent off.
And I think when you've got...
I'm trying to choose my words carefully, but you've got players who are not up to the task.
They're inclined to say to themselves, well, it's just another day, it's not our day.
That's not what you want.
Make it your day.
So somehow he's got to get them together, get them believing again, and they've got to show they've got men in that dressing room.
It can't all be about what the manager says.
It can't all be who motivates the motivator at the end of the day.
They've got to motivate themselves.
Words are...
Words come easily.
Words are cheap.
But when you cross that white line, you've got to grow some.
You've got to show you're a man at times.
And they had no men out there today.
But they need goals as well.
If you're conceding silly goals, if you're conceding poor goals and you can't score at the other end, that's a recipe for one thing.
You're going down.