Liam Rosenior reflects on ultimately unsuccessful tactical approach against Arsenal

“I’m extremely disappointed every time I lose a game of football. Every time we win, I’m happy. Every time we lose, I’m not happy. I’m not happy that we lost the game. There are aspects of our game today that I’m very happy with, but I’m here with the team. You could see how devastated the lads were after the game for what they put in.

“We believed we could come here and turn it around. In terms of the control and domination we had in the second half, there were moments in the second half I thought it was there for us. We just didn’t take it.”

“[…] You can come away from home, press all over the pitch, man-to-man and you could go 2-0 up or you could go 2-0 down. I felt that the psychological aspect of the tie was very important as well and I felt in the stadium as well. 60 minutes, I bring on Cole and Estêvão and the game opens up and we have moments in and around the box. I think there was a feeling in the stadium that this tie could turn.

“We didn’t achieve what we wanted to, but it’s not about game plans, it’s about results. I have to give our players so much credit for what they put into the game and ultimately their goal comes when we’re just throwing the kitchen sink at the game. That’s going to happen, but we have to make sure that we take the positives from that, but we’re here to get results.”

“[…] The spirit, the togetherness, the fight in the team was there. There’s a lot of encouraging signs. Now I need to see what we look like after a setback. We need to react positively. We have a difficult game away in Wolves on Saturday and I need to see what our reaction is to that.”

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