John Massino
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Apart from the goal, the way we ended the game, there was probably a spell in the second half where I thought Sheffield United got on top of it and we made a couple of changes to try and counter that.
Ultimately, it's a really difficult one to digest because I'm scratching my head as to how we lost the game.
We should have come away with at least a point and then, to be honest, I thought we should have won it.
I thought we looked organised, looked front footed, we created plenty.
The big disappointment was that when we got into those goal scoring moments we slashed at the ball or maybe made the wrong decision.
A couple of clearances off the line and a couple of wayward finishes so it was just about doing a bit more of that in the second half and we had plenty of opportunities.
We did have chances to go and do it and we didn't manage to.
Yeah, it's obviously not all about shots.
It's about the quality of the shots as well.
And I thought today the chances, the areas we got into were excellent.
We had some good opportunities in the first half and the second half as well.
There were quite a few, particularly on the left-hand side, where I think we should have done a little bit better.
So, yeah, that's something that we need to improve upon very, very quickly.
Yeah, it looked like I think Ibu was through and just maybe clipped the Sheffield United defender.
It's one of those, I think if it happened at the other end, we'd be asking for the foul.
I think that for the first 15, 20 minutes, I thought the momentum was with the away team.
I don't think there was anything particularly to do with any tactical change, although obviously they brought O'Hare on for Cannon.
It was more to do with the fact that in certain moments we just weren't dominating those battles and coming out with the first and the second balls like we had in the first half.
I think the best chance, Bamford's best chance, came from just a free kick that we switched off.
It was just a case of trying to get a bit of calmness into the game and I thought we did that from about the 70th minute onwards and I thought we looked a really good side and to be honest it's just the goal at the back end that's the absolute hammer blow.