Source: FOOTYMAD
Roy proud of players
Roy Hodgson was proud of his players yesterday. Although the last minute equaliser was sickening, Hodgson told reporters after the game he was proud of the battling qualities his side showed, especially with ten men. "It was a fantastic effort but points are hard to come by in the Premier League and when you get so close, you can't avoid the feeling of disappointment," said the boss. "Maybe that second-half performance deserved all three points and not just one, albeit if at half-time someone had said we'd get a 0-0 or 1-1 draw I probably would have accepted that. "But to concede so close to the end to a rather scrappy goal was tough on us. The boys did everything they could do and it was an excellent game of football. I hope the fans enjoyed the spectacle. "It was a wonderful goal [by Ngog]. It was a good piece of pressurising between Glen Johnson and Dirk Kuyt to set him up and David took the chance superbly. We had a couple of other chances in second half as well. Both goalkeepers were called into action and there were goal-mouth incidents at both ends. "We were playing with nine men for a short period of time towards the end after Danny [Agger] had to go off with concussion and unfortunately the game lasted just four or five minutes too long for us."
