Warne ‘Probably Hardest Game At Home This Season’

Rotherham United Manager Paul Warne again told his ‘lads’ some home truths after today’s two-nil win over Morecambe which he says they could easily have lost.

‘Morecambe came here and made it hard for us,’ the Millers Boss told IFollow after the game, ‘and I think it was probably the hardest game we’ve had at home this season. They kept peppering our goal and had more shots than us and it turned into a bit of a basketball match and it felt like we lost a bit of control.’

I totally agree. Morecambe only had one thing on their minds in the second half and that was to get goals and I feel that if they had scored around the seventy or seventy-fifth minute they could quite easily have gone on to get a draw if not more from this game. And Warney said the same thing.

‘But one thing this game has done,’ Warney carried on, ‘is given the lads a wakener.

‘Our centre-forward and goalkeeper have won us the game tonight. Freddie (Ladapo) was unplayable and Josh Vickers must take the greatest credit for tonight’s game.’

‘Every game has it’s questions and you have to have the answers and tonight I don’t think we had all the answers. But we did have some magical moments, some really good play but do I leave here content? No, but maybe I’m getting a bit greedy. Saying that, I know I’m biased, but I do think we did enough to win.’

I felt we were defending too deep and some of that defending looked nervous. Josh Vickers kept us in this game tonight and I’m just pleased he was there. I do worry that we look to panic a bit. The Boss says he doesn’t think we won enough of the fifty/fifty tackles – I don’t think we got near what should have been fifty/fifty tackles. Time and time I shake my head when we are defending a corner and get the ball out because I know it’s going to go straight back into the danger area again because we don’t have any players waiting to collect the ball and either have a run with it or clear it up-field. And today I noticed the odd time we did manage to take the ball out and run up-field the playing doing that was totally on his own with no help near.

I really wanted to come away talking about Freddie Ladapo and his two great goals tonight but I’ve come away thinking we were lucky.

But, I suppose, that’s football for you and if you can still not be at your best, keep a clean sheet and get all three points we really shouldn’t be complaining should we.