Was that another efficient performance in Europe for your side this season?
Yes. I wouldn’t give it a bigger title than that, that’s for sure. But like all of the games in Europe, they are pretty difficult. There are other reasons tonight. The difference in the pitch, us not being used to it like they are. We controlled lots of parts of the game, got ourselves quite comfortably in front and really abused our opportunities after that to go four or five one up and we didn’t take them. We ended up nearly suffering for it.
Is the aim to take the fact you’ve scored three goals in all of your European games into the Premier League?
Yes, we do. Good performances tend to lead to good results. There’s bits of tonight that were okay, but not all of tonight. This is what we are finding, we are using the competition to try and integrate players, to try and give some players minutes who are short of minutes and trying to introduce a couple of injured players back who have been injured for a wee while, so it is a mixture of all of those things coming into it. We are not quite in the form maybe we want to be in but we’re just about doing enough to get through at the moment.
Was Gianluca Scamacca’s goal exactly why you bought him to the club?
Yes, you are beginning to see a little bit of what we are seeing regularly in training and what he’s got in his locker. I thought his performance wasn’t so good in the opening part, but I thought that later in the first half he held up the ball better, got it wide, bought people into the game better. At the start, I wasn’t so sure about that. His goal will give him confidence, he has scored a goal in just about every game he has started in this competition, maybe not the last one. He’s made a good contribution but we are still looking to find maybe our best rhythm at the moment and the reasons are trying to introduce players, give young players games, getting over injuries. Obviously a lot of new players and trying to get them in and to see exactly what they can do.
