DROGHEDA HOLD OUT ROVERS | 'Overall, we are happy!’ | Stephen Bradley, Edwin Agbaje & Kevin Doherty
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You can now listen to Spillertruppen only on Podimo. New episode every Thursday. My name is Kasper Stenbak, and this is the podcast where the players talk. football on off the ball i think the sad part is if you wait for a hole in your tit to the highest standards you're in a bit of trouble like that has to be a warning shot for people in fifa join in the obsession subscribe now at off the ball.com forward slash join off the ball daily head coach stephen bradley uh i might just get your assessment of the game first
Look, I thought we were good, I have to be honest. We knew we'd have all the possession. We knew we were playing transitions and set players, which they do a lot. If Solov scores the one in the first half that hits the post, maybe they have to come out and play and it's a different game. We had some good chances in the second half. And to be fair, they had two chances at the end as well. That makes a brilliant save. So maybe a draw is a fair result.
And you know your team are going to be defending against a side that likes to defend deep. Is it all about telling them just to be patient with the ball?
Yeah, just be patient. And again, I can't fault that. I thought we were. If you look back, we created some really good chances, especially second half. We were patient. Our runners were good. Ben has one just by the post. Michael has one. Will has one just by the post. Another night, one of them goes in and the game opens up. It just wasn't to be.
To ask you about your team selections, you made six changes from the Champions League night. People might start reading into it. Were you dropping players for maybe performances that were below their own level or what was going on there?
No, I said Tuesday I thought it was one of our best ever European performances, so nothing to do with performance. You have to manage loads of players. We've been down this road a lot the last few years. We understand what it takes. We also understand that you have to use the squad and if you think you can just keep pushing players, and not pick up injuries, you're asking for trouble. So it was never about performance. We left Graeme out tonight, Danny Mandrew, Dylan. We left a few out tonight just because of the load they've had. Jonathan got 45 tonight, which is great. Will played. So no, it was nothing to do with performance. I thought Tuesday we were brilliant.
Yeah, and just because Graeme Borken didn't watch people, is there knocks there or whatever looking ahead to Tuesday?
No, nothing. Nothing at all. We've just, like I said, we've learned throughout the years that when it's close games, in terms of Tuesday, Friday and our high intensity games, and you have to be really careful at the end of the ground with the load that they put into the game, how they run. It's complex, but we have to listen to the data and trust it. And we've learned to do that over the years.
Debut for Will Fitzgerald, playing on his regular left hand side but then went out to the right in the second half. I think especially in the second half of the performance you must have been really happy with.
Delighted with him, really am. You knew he'd bring that to the team and the club and he has, he's straight into the team there.
How did Stephen Bradley assess the 0-0 draw with Drogheda United?
He's only trained one day with us and he gets it straight away, clever player. He's gutted inside that he hasn't scored in the second half. He feels he should score that one that he's in on goal. But his performance was why we wanted him here, left, right. He's so comfortable, so much quality and he's a real leader and we've seen that tonight.
Nas Razzy really stood out for the whole game, I felt, and there was times where it looked like he might have been in the phone box and he was still getting away from players.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:40
2
How did Stephen Bradley assess the 0-0 draw with Drogheda United?
3:40–6:58
3
Why did Shamrock Rovers make six changes after their Champions League game?
6:58–8:29
4
What did Bradley say about managing player load and squad rotation?
8:29–10:55
5
Which players impressed on debut or with standout performances for Rovers?
10:55–15:50
6
What was Stephen Bradley's view on Roberto López's red card decision?
15:50–17:17
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