Rotherham United Manager Paul Warne said his team found it ‘difficult to break MK Dons down’ after their two-one home loss this afternoon.
Speaking to Radio Sheffield the Millers Boss said, ‘I thought we were OK in the first half. The penalty and sending-off was the right decision then we created some more half chances. Then they scored off a set piece when we didn’t clear the goal area quick enough and then they got another goal. And we didn’t create enough in the second half to take anything out of the game.
‘I thought we played with too much fear. We didn’t move the ball quick enough and that enabled ten players to get behind the ball. We didn’t switch the ball quick enough.
And I agree. But, to be honest, I’ve been thinking that we’ve looked frightened to lose since we lost at Fleetwood. And some of our play was slow and when we needed to get it forward we passed back – which wasn’t like us in the first half of the season.
‘There’s no drama,’ the Millers Boss carried on, ‘but we have to discuss where we think it went wrong against a good MK side. But we aren’t going to walk the next eleven games and high-five everyone on the way and we will be handed the promotion. It’s not going to be like that.
‘The loss today is a psychological blow and our job is to pick them up and show them what they’re good at and what we need to improve on and try and put it right although there are no guarantees in that. But, if you’d offered me this league table in June then I would one hundred per cent took it. It’s not a disaster but it would have been nicer to go to bed tonight after a win.’
On the injury front it looks like Freddie Ladapo could be out for two or three weeks after going off in the game today.
You know this might be a wake up call for some of the players. As I said I don’t think we’ve played well since mid-January although until the last four or so games I thought we’ve had the energy and the movement. But today – and on Tuesday night – there were too many balls not reaching the intended player, too much side ways passing, too many times the opposition have been able to take the ball off us. And, in my opinion, we looked tired today, definitely not at the races.
Let’s hope that will change for the visit to Wycombe next weekend although, of course, there’s the Papa John’s Trophy game to get through.