John Massino

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.

I think we dealt with it very well so that's why we wanted to make the changes.

I hope most goals are preventable but this one we had a free kick, we had a free kick in their half and we had three chances I think to go and win the second balls on the break and we didn't do it so just not locked off well enough from our own set piece unfortunately.

I think there's plenty of positives.

We've got to keep going in terms of the way that we're playing and then add something at the front end of the pitch to make sure we actually put the ball in the back of the net.

And in those moments where we have the chance, like we did against Preston at the weekend, when we've got the chance to properly defend, we've just got to be a little bit better in those moments.

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We have to take a view with Faz, who has come in and done pretty well.

He gives us cover, but if there's something that's attractive to him we'd have a conversation.