Hodgson: Albion deserved more

11 December 2011 20:20
Boss disappointed by result; but pleased with performance.

Roy Hodgson had mixed emotions after watching his Albion side fire blanks in front of Wigan’s goal.

Albion took the lead after Steven Reid’s excellent curling free kick in the 33rd minute but were pegged back Victor Moses equaliser six minutes later. Jordi Gomez’s penalty three minutes before the hour-mark gave Wigan all three points after Albion failed to capitalise on second half chances.

The Baggies boss admitted afterwards he was disappointed with the result but failed to find any faults in his side’s performance.

 "It's one of those strange games, really, where I'm quite pleased with the performance, in particular the second half, when I think we played extremely well," said Hodgson.

"I don't think we can play a lot better than that.

"Yet still we concede a goal from Wigan's only sortee into our penalty area.

"After that, we were 2-1 down and we really took the game to them.

"The ball was dancing around that six-yard box, their keeper's making saves, people are getting blocks in and there is corner after corner.

"It was one of those where you thought 'if we keep playing like this a goal has got to come'.

"But it didn't - and Wigan rode that situation to come away with a very good victory.

"There has been lots of games this year, even games we've got something out of, where I've been a lot less satisfied with the way the players have played.

"If we can guarantee in every game from now on that we will dominate the opponent as much as we dominated Wigan, we would win most of our games.

"It wasn't to be but not because we played particularly badly or didn't make enough effort to win the game.

"I think it was just not to be because their goal had that magic spell today - and we couldn't quite break that magic spell."


Source: FOOTYMAD