Steve McLaren

Yeah, whereas last week we won the game in the first 10 minutes, 15 minutes, the way we set off.

Today we lost it.

I think quite a few things in terms of...

being exposed to our defensive frailties.

Like we said before, we're playing Rolando at left-back and Stevie Tell, that's his second game in six months.

We got a little bit exposed by quality players.

As soon as I saw the team sheet, I thought, we have to defend very well.

We didn't do that.

But I think the majority of the goals and problems were caused by ourselves in giving away possession cheaply when

Normally we have players who can play football and deal with the ball.

The goals were our own fault, where we lost the ball, couldn't handle the press, couldn't play through it, and we got punished severely.

No, I don't think so.

No, certainly focused and certainly the way they were.

We knew that they would, with their front five, we knew that they would press.

We knew that we'd have to play forward and play good tempo.

As I said before the game, how well we get on today will be how well we pass the ball and deal with the ball.

The first 15 minutes, we didn't deal with it very well.

You always demand more and you always want more.

and unfortunately we've just been exposed tonight by a very, very good team, and that can happen, but we've just got to dust ourselves down, we've just said, I said before the game, 18 days before the next one, I think it's a good period for us, we've got lots of injuries, we need to get them back, so we've got a possibility of four or five coming back, we need to work on some who have just joined us in terms of fitness, so we'll be in better shape by the time we come back, 12 games to go,

we have to dust ourselves down and make sure the next 12 are good ones.