Coventry City manager Steven Pressley felt that his side crossed the line from confidence to complacency on Sunday in their defeat to Brentford.
Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner, the City boss said: “I had a meeting with the players this week and, I’ll be honest with you, I spoke to them because over the course of the first eight games people were stopping me in the street and saying this is the best football they had seen for 30 years.
“The players have been receiving some incredible press in a lot of the papers; individuals have excelled within the team but it’s the team that has allowed those individuals to excel.
“A big part of our game is built on our work ethic and attention to detail when we don’t have the ball.
"When we press the ball we have to press it at 100 per cent maximum for our triggers to work, and at the weekend we didn’t.
“We pressed at 90 per cent, and that makes a difference because Brentford were able to make passes that normally they would not be allowed to make because of the way we usually go after things.
"I have been talking a lot of late how there is such a fine line between confidence and complacency, and we just went over to that complacent side at the weekend and didn’t play with then intensity that we have all season.
“Our game is based on high regains, quick passes and goals.
"Yes, we’re a passing team, but a big part of our attacking play is high pressure and breaking with speed, and that wasn’t so evident in our performance at the weekend because our edge, as I call it, was reduced by five or ten per cent.
“And I had to remind the players that if anybody thinks that they are the reason that the team is playing well, they have to think again.
“The reason they are performing well is the team and because they are buying in to what the team is.”
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