Latics manager Paul Dickov took some good points after Tuesday’s disappointing home defeat to Scunthorpe. The boss stayed upbeat and said, “If you don’t take your chances and don’t defend properly, you don’t win games. We played some fantastic stuff and had enough clear-cut chances to win two games. We should have been out of sight by half-time. When you are creating chances like that, it is important you are switched on at the back. The longer the game went on, we got more anxious with our attacking and defending. We conceded from a set-piece, got the little bit of luck we felt we deserved and switched off again. If you switch off like that and miss those chances, you won’t win games. But I am not going to be too negative with them. At times, we were the best we have been in my time at the club.”Speaking about the sending off of Keanu Marsh-Brown he continued, “You can’t do that. We have seen a lot of times this season what happens if you leave the floor with two feet. It was a silly sending-off. We said at the break, we don’t have to go and win it in the first five minutes of the second half. The longer the game went on, the more we forced things too much. Games are coming thick and fast and we have seen already with the little run we have been on how quickly you can push up the table. We are all disappointed and I am gutted for the fans. It was a good turn-out again. I think anyone who was here would see we are trying to do the right things again and that the boys had a right good go. We just need to wise up a bit.”
Source: FOOTYMAD
