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00:00It was quite a fluid shape again, Paul, you had Potts following as Azz, didn't you?
00:03Yeah, because that's where they train out Numbie in the middle of the park and that's where they're very, very good.
00:08So I thought it helped us deal with them, but us with the ball.
00:13And so you imagine then when Pottsy finds himself wide because Sam's come inside in that transition as Azz is free, you know?
00:18Yeah.
00:19So it was a cat and mouse.
00:20And so, yeah, as much as it was helping to deal with them and stop them, I felt in that first moment when we lost the ball, that's when they were most dangerous.
00:28But the game panned out how you expected.
00:29I thought you were quite confident you knew what Poro were going to do.
00:32They're on the good side, you know, you can see what they're trying to do.
00:35They're very good players.
00:37I really like them at the top end of the pitch and that's why I'm pleased with how we defended.
00:41Because the other way to deny that space is to sit back really deep and block the pitch up.
00:48But I just don't like doing that.
00:49So I'd rather have had bodies there and still let us try and impress them, knowing that you could get exploited.
00:55So the goal comes from that, but we should have still dealt with it.
00:58Yeah, you mentioned the adversity at Oxford, dealing better with that as a club in games.
01:01You think you saw that a bit today?
01:03Yeah, definitely, because that was much tougher for us today.
01:05And that's no disrespect to Oxford.
01:06That still frustrates me how we lost that game.
01:08From nowhere, we were 1-0 up and thinking we should have been 2 or 3 up.
01:13And then from nowhere, all of a sudden we're 2-1 down and you're scratching your head.
01:17Then we had a sending off.
01:18So, yeah, a really strange game, that one for me.
01:21This one, come away to a team where, like I say, I know how good they are
01:26and the problems with composure, and we stood up to it.
01:29Yeah, no tackles flying in, yellow cards again.
01:31Do you think this team needs to be a bit nastier or is that something you identified?
01:35No, I think we need the rest to even it up with the fouls that keep going.
01:3921 against us, only 6-4.
01:43Yeah, I know we've had away, but it's always the same away.
01:46In fact, there is a home and away bias, there always is.
01:49So, we'll have that swing differently at home the next time.