Steve Bruce

We didn't have a left-wing back in particular, so we changed, but we've made it more difficult for ourselves.

Of course, to win any football match, you have to create the opportunities too, so it's getting that balance right between the two, and that's one thing we'll have to work on.

Well, look, it's a bad, bad performance.

The one thing we have to do is go to work this week and put away the mistakes we're obviously making and give ourselves a chance in the game.

We can't just go around like we did today, otherwise it is going to be one difficult season.

So we have to do the basics well and do the basics right and at the moment we're not doing them.

Do you think the players threw in the towel today?

I would think that's a bit strong.

It was a difficult one, as I said to you, because the second and third goal came so quickly.

And that's somewhere afternoon, a mistake and a bad deflection.

After that, it became very difficult and they had to stay in.

But some were defending, left a lot to be desired, to say the least.

And it all ended up in a horrible, horrible afternoon for everybody.

Is this job, I know you knew it was going to be tough, but is it proving harder than you thought?

Listen, I always knew it was going to be tough, but I've had a tough career over the last 20 years.

And when you take defeats like you have today, you have to show them what you've got, stick your chest out and come back for a bit more.

and I'm hoping that the team will do the same.

Yeah, we knew that we've got a really tough fixture list to start with, but the Premier League demands that you do the basics well, no matter who you're playing against.

And if we don't do the basics well, certainly against Manchester, then we're in for a tough afternoon as well there.

So it's one of them games where we have to go and play well, that's for sure, and we'll work hard all week to try and achieve it.