McLeish unhappy with poor defending

27 September 2009 08:16
Birmingham manager Alex McLeish bemoaned his side's poor defending as they lost 2-1 at home to Bolton.[LNB]Tamir Cohen put the visitors ahead when he converted Kevin Davies' flick-on before Kevin Phillips put Blues back on level terms with six minutes remaining.[LNB]Chung-Yong Lee grabbed the winner with four minutes to play when he reacted first to a Matty Taylor free-kick which rebounded off the woodwork.[LNB]McLeish said: "After we had equalised I don't know if the players thought that the game was over. It looked like they were in a trance for a couple of minutes.[LNB]"It was poor defending for their winner and was another harsh lesson of what can happen in the Premier League.[LNB]"We also lost the first goal to a set-piece, the sort of thing we practice on the training ground to make sure it doesn't happen. But we were punished again."

Source: Eurosport