Every word Liam Manning said on Watford loss, Bristol City ‘frustration’, Yu Hirakawa and more
Watford defeated Bristol City 1-0 at Vicarage Road on Tuesday night, causing the team to suffer back-to-back
Championship losses for the first time since September.
Ryan Andrews’ game-winning second-half goal proved to be the Hornets’ sole attempt on goal during the whole
game, as the Robins largely kept their opponents at bay, much like they did against Burnley the previous time out.
City had plenty of their own chances, with Luke McNally, Jason Knight, and Nahki Wells all coming close, and Scott
Twine’s late strike that would have been a candidate for goal of the season was only stopped by the crossbar.
The Reds are currently five points outside of the playoffs as a result of their costly goalscoring issues.
This is what Liam Manning said to the written press during his news conference following the game.
Yes, the same feelings of disappointment and annoyance. It’s close, I believe, and we need to put in more effort to
stop being so close. We must make sure that you win games by the calibre of your penalty-area play, particularly in
the first half when we are so dominant, get into such good locations, and create so many fantastic chances.
I’m really happy with how we dominated the first half and scored the goal. It’s a great finish, but it’s too simple for
them to have done it that way. We frequently discuss keeping things outside and in front of us and controlling the
middle of the pitch. It was a little annoying to let them get inside of us so easily. Then, the game shifted because they
dropped deeper instead of pressing, which altered the pitch’s space and made it more difficult to break them down.
As a result, we didn’t produce as much. We’ve lost a game after giving up a single shot on goal, which is incredibly annoying.
City had plenty of opportunities of their own with Nahki Wells, Jason Knight and Luke McNally all going close while only the crossbar could deny what would have been a goal-of-the-season contender from Scott Twine late on.
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