• 2 days ago
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00:00The pitch tonight, is it a challenge at the minute, is it affecting the way you can play, with obviously the ground being tough?
00:06Yeah, obviously it's new to me to be here, this pitch, and it's the first night I've noticed it, both aesthetically when I first walked up there and had a look at it, and then also how it played.
00:20Yeah, but it's the same for both teams.
00:23You mentioned size, was that a big thing? They're an enormous team, aren't they, Millwall? Always been a big set of pieces, right?
00:28Yeah, but like I said, Liam did well against Cooper, and like I said, that one, I don't know how close it was to going in where he out-jumped Cooper in the first half.
00:37Yeah, it was, it was that, and also they've been hitting, they changed their shapes to play against us, where they've been sort of rotating and putting Cramer high and wide on the right,
00:48and hitting Dynex to him, which would have, you know, been against Uzi today, which would have been fine.
00:53So lots of little things where, like you said, to look after players we made changes, and also to deal with Millwall we made changes, yeah.
01:01Do you think in another five minutes you would have potentially got a win at Kane runs through, doesn't it? You felt like you were the ones pushing, really.
01:07Yeah, we were. Listen, we did more than enough, I bet we've more than doubled their shots, I bet we've probably more than quadrupled their touches in the penalty box, you know what I mean?
01:19It's one of those, but to go behind, we spoke about being patient, we spoke about remaining composed, because the game was exactly as we thought, and they happened to score from one of their set plays, you know.
01:35The fact it wasn't even a foul, you know, more frustration, and that's the type of thing where you can play into someone's hands when they're set up that way.
01:43But we didn't, and we stayed composed, and like you said, we were the more dangerous team throughout, so yeah.
01:50Pleased with that, but just not pleased we didn't get three points.
01:53You've been pleased with Toda, I assume you got him out of the match tonight.
01:56Yeah, as I said, we spoke about him a lot at the start of the season. Yeah, adapting, everyone's seen it now, everyone's speaking well of him, which is good.
02:05And I still think he can adapt and learn and get even better for us, because he's enjoying the challenge of it, you know?
02:13The physical challenge of it, both in terms of contact and how the game's played, but also in terms of how relentless it is and the intensity of the game.
02:21So, yeah, really pleased with how he's progressing.