Keith wrote:redrobo wrote:Couldn't admit that we were by far the better team.....
Do you think we were? I thought it was very even and a draw was probably a fair result. We were perhaps marginally better than FGR in the second half and to lose would have been an injustice. I certainly wouldn't expect their manager to say we were "
by far the better team" because he's their manager, not ours! He did say it is good to see us up at the top of the table.
It was a pretty even first half - our pressing caused them trouble but they were able to break through the press a fair bit and break, mainly through Collins, which caused us a lot of issues.
In the second half, though, we absolutely bossed it - dominated the territory and played high up the pitch. They defended well but we stopped them from countering like they did in the first half, which is why we dominated territory so much.
Their goal ultimately comes from us having 10 men on the pitch (the restart was done correctly with a drop ball, but I think you could well argue we should have had a free-kick). CMG has to get back into the centre of the pitch to cover as we're a man light with Songo'o out, ball goes wide left and Hendrie is left 2v1 due to CMG having to cover centrally.
That said, I don't think their assistant's assessment is a particularly unfair one. Managers very rarely say 'they were the better team' etc, and tend to be more focused and descriptive of their own team's performance.