Hecky's reaction to Blades' defeat to Man City

Paul Heckingbottom's verdict on Sheffield United's defeat at home to Manchester City

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00:00 It's a challenge. You almost have to play the perfect game. We could have dealt with

00:06 the first goal with two players on the chat and the byline. A bit more communication,

00:12 a bit more aggression, the cross doesn't come in. We get inside Ireland at that post and

00:17 then it was a score. Then we should have dealt with the ball out wide in the second goal.

00:21 But when they've had so much of the ball, you probably forget any of the 99.5% and you

00:27 forget everything else in the third goal. That's down to Wes as well.

00:32 But then the difficulty is we know we're going to have spells like that. You could see the

00:37 difference when we brought Ole on and we got over the ball at the top end of the pitch

00:41 and the ball actually just come. But we're not in a position yet where we'd have finished

00:46 that. It's a dream when the equaliser wins it. Thinking it could be a precious point.

00:52 Of course. Because we had, besides the first goal, stood strong against everything we were

00:59 throwing at us. Good positions, managed the game well. Retained quite a fair degree of

01:08 control in the game even though we lost a lot of the ball in our half. We made the mistake

01:14 on the far side but then the kick in the teeth if you like. When the ball comes in it's actually

01:19 it's actually full of only miscontrols and it drops straight along his path so sometimes

01:22 he looks like a d*ck.