Roeder Makes His Excuses

Last updated : 02 April 2007 By Footy Mad - Editor
Roeder: "It has not crossed my mind. I never talk about other teams, Stuart (Pearce) talks for himself.

"I understand their (the fans) frustration - I was very frustrated myself that we found it difficult to break them down.

"People do not realise how difficult it is playing against a team who get so many men behind the ball.

"When that happens, you must score that first goal to bring them out to play.
When Scott Parker's goal was disallowed, they sat in, they were patient, they waited and they punished us for a mistake on the counter-attack.

"They had once chance, the lad drove it home and that was it. They did not have another chance of any consequence. Ironically, the few chances that came our way - and they were good chances - were after we went one down.

"I can only go to work with the players, which I will do as hard as I ever do working towards the game at Sheffield United. They players' disappointment in the dressing room was huge that they had lost a game they knew they should not have lost.

"It would have been disappointing to have taken only a point today, but to have lost the game is a double whammy."