Following that shambolic excuse for a performance yesterday, our new manager had to face the media and try to look for some positives, he didn’t find any as far as I am concerned, we were shocking and we could have been truly trounced by a side that has only one win in their last ten games.
Norwich looked light years ahead of us, they were physical, fought for possession, had movement on and off the ball and their so called dodgy rearguard looked comfortable all afternoon, mind you who wouldn’t against our labouring, insipid strike force.
When the referee brought an end to the torturous 90 minutes the two bosses spoke to the media, let’s take a look at what they had to say:
Latics boss Malky Mackay –‘We didn’t start well today and that lost us the goal and then it took until half-time for us to really look as if we had any urgency about our game’
‘Second-half I thought we were so much better; we pushed for the equaliser and a couple of times the ball has gone across their box and I thought we may have got there near the end.
‘It’s up to the players, because you have to start at a pace against a good team, a team that came down from the Premier League, with a big squad and a quality squad.
‘You’re not allowed to start poorly in this league or you get punished and we were in that first 15 minutes.’
‘We flashed balls across their box three or four times and we had a couple of set-pieces that were nearly there with two balls spilling out of the keeper’s hands into the six-yard box but we didn’t quite manage to finish
‘It seems to be a bit like that at the moment, in terms of the ball being in and around that six-yard without anyone there to have that will or desire to put the ball in the net.
‘That’s something that we’ll change over time with the players getting used to me and me getting used to them.’
‘There’s nothing else for it but to work hard; I’ve been here three weeks, I’ve got a good, honest group of players and I know that but we’ve got to make sure we turn that into wins.
‘That’s why I’m here, that’s what I do and I’ll work from morning to night to make sure that we turn this around for Wigan Athletic’
Malky Mackay and Neil Adams
By permission of Bernard Platt/Wigan Athletic
Norwich boss Neil Adams – ‘I’m delighted. Results are everything and we got one today.
‘It certainly wasn’t a classic game, but we came here with an intention, with a game-plan to win the game – and I was delighted with the manner we went about it.
‘For once we didn’t make any individual errors, which have cost us so dearly in recent weeks. It’s probably a cliché but it was a solid, strong, professional display.
‘We’ve all felt the pressure, absolutely, and rightly so. A club like Norwich, with 27,000 fans in the Championship, is expected to perform.
‘When results don’t go your way, pressure tends to intensify. That’s how it should be, and you have to step up to it and face it.
‘We feel we’ve done that today, but it’s only one win and we have to move on.’
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