Rotherham United Manager Paul Warne said his side ‘looked a bit flat’ after a disappointing display at the New York Stadium this evening against Nottingham Forest.
Speaking to iFOLLOW after the one-nil loss the Millers Boss reflected saying that perhaps he should have changed the team more than he did saying, ‘I believe we put the best players out but we didn’t look as sharp or as energetic as I’d have liked. That’s not on the lads, that’s my fault.’
Flat is one way to describe tonight’s performance. Nothing seemed to gel, our energy levels weren’t as they have been and, to be frank, we looked like a dull side who didn’t know how to get the ball into the right places at the right time.
‘In fairness,’ the Gaffer carried on, ‘we were playing a team who have only lost one in twelve who are full of confidence who were better than us tonight. But I thought we kept going to the very end and in another game we’d have probably got a draw.
‘It was disappointing that we didn’t get a goal because you can play under par and still get a point and tonight a point against Forest when you aren’t playing your best would have been a great point.’
Asked why Richard Wood wasn’t involved in the match squad – he was on the bench at Norwich on Saturday – Warney explained, ‘he slipped on the training ground yesterday, had a scan and has some damage in his groin. He will definitely miss the next game as well.’ We will also miss Michael Ihiekwe who picked up his tenth booking of the season tonight and is automatically out for two games.