Source: FOOTYMAD
Dickov none too happy
first defeat a disappointment Latics' manager Paul Dickov was none too happy after suffering his first defeat of the season at home to Shrewsbury Town in the Johnston's Paint Trophy.He commented, “I wasn’t getting carried away with the good start we have had but maybe other people were. We were brought down to earth with a bump here, where we were beaten by a better team. I thought we were out-fought and outplayed. All credit to Shrewsbury as they came here and played very well. We looked lightweight. We didn’t have enough shots or enough crosses — something we told the players about on Saturday and again the day before the game in training. We worked on it in training and told the players again before the game here. We are disappointed to have lost the game. But we won’t get too downbeat. We didn’t get carried away after our good start and at the same down we won’t be too negative here.” “You don’t shoot, you don’t score. That is what we told the players and we worked for around an hour and 15 minutes the day before on crossing and finishing in training. That is the disappointing thing. The lads know themselves they haven’t played well, but the biggest disappointment for me was that we felt we got bullied a little bit. We have got to work harder, look back at the games we have done reasonably well in so far this season and get back to basics. One thing we do need is leaders out there as once Reuben went off, we were very quiet. We pick ourselves up now and get back to giving the fans something to shout about on Saturday, as we didn’t do that here.”
