Jamie Jackson was at the Etihad tonight. Here’s his report …
… while in some late breaking news, Chris Paraskevas has managed to source his aforementioned bacon-and-egg roll. “Got it! Not a bad way to commiserate a defeat.” Thanks for reading this MBM.
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Eddie Howe’s turn to chat to Sky. “It was the start we didn’t want … then Joe Willock had a good chance and we didn’t take the opportunity … it took the game away from us … the first half was really difficult, the second half the lads did really well … in both games we are really frustrated we scored only one goal … on the balance of opportunities … Trafford made some good saves … we were guilty of missing some good opportunities … it could have been very different but we have to accept the reality … when you play as we do, it’s a one-v-one game … when you’re taking it to the highest level it’s going to cost you … we were letting runners go … losing too many duels … we had to readjust and were better, but we’re disappointed we couldn’t execute our style of play … [in the second half] we had new energy and were better for it … a more simple plan … but I’m disappointed we had to do that … we were trying to attack, not in a cavalier way, that’s what it may seem like from the outside but I’d rather lose the game doing that than being passive and wasting an opportunity … it didn’t happen for us but it wasn’t for the want of trying.”
He also reports that Anthony Gordon has a hamstring problem. “I don’t think it looks too bad but it was enough for him to come off.”
