After Coventry City experience late agony at the CBS Arena, Mark Robins makes a “painful” admission.
Coventry City versus CoventryLive match reaction as Sky Blues manager Mark Robins reacts to the unfortunate late drama at the CBS Arena
After witnessing his new-look Coventry City side drop an equalizer in the waning seconds of extra time at the CBS Arena, Mark Robins acknowledges that it is a “painful” process to get his team to finish off wins.
After Yasin Ayari gave the Sky Blues the lead against Huddersfield Town in the first half, it appeared as though they would record just their second victory of the year. However, the home team was unable to hold onto their slim lead due to collectively bad defending, which prevented them from scoring a second goal.
It’s quite annoying, but if you don’t adequately defend, don’t stick with it through, then… We have already experienced this scenario a few times this season, and it can start to take on mental form,” the City manager stated in response to the 1-1 tie. “But in the end, you can manage it by being confident and refraining from making foolish decisions. When the game was over, we found ourselves rushing into areas where we had no reason to.
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We only had to stop the last attack, however on the first header, Kels got under the ball after being pushed under it, but he wasn’t required to. He would have won the header and the match is over if he had stepped off.
“On the back of that, Binksy comes in with Hudlin in a space just in front of him and he tried to get there but he flicks it round the corner, so he’s out of the game. Jake Bidwell can go to the man on the ball, in the initial phase, and I
think that was Rudoni on the ball, but he backed away. Then there’s a run off the back and they slide the ball into the box but we don’t need to let the ball go into the box. And then we are all trying to panic to get a toe on it to get it out but it hits Bobby Thomas on the head and hits the lad on the leg and goes in.
It’s just insane! We need to be in that moment because if we are, we can genuinely handle it with calm heads. However, we are not in that moment right now. That’s the change, then. The change for us must be that.
In the end, I had to replace one or two minor components. Sometimes during games, I could use more energy in the middle of the field, but right now, I just don’t have it. Today, Jamie Allen played more minutes, which is a problem. Since they were starting to fire it forward and you were wondering if they could see it out, the alterations were really beneficial. We placed more energy and height in the wing-back positions.
And in the end, it simply didn’t happen, which is quite frustrating. I am aware that things will shift and turn. Simply said, getting there is painful.
