Rotherham United Manager Paul Warne thought his sides play in the first half deserved a goal but their second half performance didn’t match the first.
Speaking after losing at home to Luton Town this evening the Millers Boss told iFOLLOW, ‘You have to score when you’re on top and we didn’t.’
No, we didn’t. And it isn’t the first time that’s happened this season – even last season – and I really think that is something that has to be addressed.
‘Luton were better than us in the second half,’ the Gaffer admitted, ‘and they deserved their goal. Disappointingly we didn’t really have a reaction after that which is probably my fault, I probably didn’t make enough changes. We had a fifteen minute spell that didn’t look like us tonight and that’s disappointing.’
Again there is no arguing with that. Once Luton scored, I won’t say our heads went down, but we looked physically shell-shocked. And you haven’t got ten minutes to try and catch you breath in the Championship. You’ve got to get straight back into the game.
Warney said he thought the two wingers were exhausted in the second half saying, ‘they’ve practically played every minute and we are pretty reliant on those two. Wiles was going to be our number ten tonight but with Joe (Mattock) going off that changed, though I thought he was outstanding.
‘When you are under the cosh, and we were for fifteen minutes, you have to see it out and tonight we weren’t good enough to do that.
‘It’s a disappointing evening.’
Talking about the injuries Warney said that Joe Mattock has a muscle injury and Shaun MacDonald has broken his leg and will be out for eight or ten weeks.