And with that, I’ll bid you farewell. Here’s the match report. Thanks for reading, and season’s greetings.
Kieran McKenna speaks: “It wasn’t our day and it’s a difficult afternoon, but I thought the first half the gulf between the teams wasn’t a 3-0. The moments went against us and they’re such a good team in the transitions. There was a crystal clear foul on Connor Chaplin in the buildup to the first goal but we didn’t defend the corner – we need to do better. Once we’re 1-0 down it’s difficult, we looked comfortable without threatening so going in at 0-3 down was tough. I’ve not seen whether there was a foul for the second goal but the first was a big one so early in the game. I haven’t seen the penalty decision back we shouldn’t let them break out of that attacking scenario. I wouldn’t have done anything different approach-wise – we also know how our season’s going, we didn’t approach it any different. W’ve had an incredible first half of the season, today didn’t go our way aganst a really strong team but it’s a 46-game season.”
Daniel Farke’s take: “I can’t praise [the players] enough against one of the best sides in the league – one of the most mature performances of the entire season, we kept them really quiet, a couple of half-chances in the first half and second half and that’s all. Against a really food side who deserve to be in the top positions and the most important topic was we kept going when we were in the lead. In all areas we were really strong.”
