'How can you win the game?' Darren Moore has 'no complaints' over Sheffield Wednesday defeat to Forest Green Rovers
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Moore had ‘no complaints’ about the 1-0 victory by Duncan Ferguson’s men – their first since the former Everton striker took charge – which came thanks to a 35th minute goal for Jordon Garrick.
It was certainly one of the worst displays for quite some time for Wednesday, whose long unbeaten run was ended in midweek by Barnsley in the run up to this one in Gloucestershire and the manager, while giving praise to Rovers, criticised his team for the manner of their defeat.
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Hide Ad“Today's game was a tough one to take but I have to give Forest Green credit, I don't think we deserved [anything],” said Moore. “I don't think we did enough in the game today, so credit to Forest Green. I thought they closed us down well, I thought they had a wonderful shape to them and were very difficult to break down and they came up with the all-important goal and managed to see the game out. From our perspective you can have no complaints about the result because we didn't do enough.”
Coming off the back of that 4-2 defeat at Oakwell, Moore also refused to use that energy-sapping derby as an excuse for their second loss in a matter of days.
“We want the games to come because we are well prepared for them,” he said. “We had the game in midweek and I thought we were well prepared for the game [against Forest Green] but when you look back at the game we just didn't have the level, weren't clean enough with the ball, I don't think we executed passes in certain parts of the pitch well enough and I don't think we put the ball into dangerous zones enough to threaten them enough. Therefore, when you don't do that, how can you win the game?
"So we have to take the rough with the smooth, it wasn't good enough today, we have got another game on Wednesday we are looking to put a performance in and that's what we are focusing on now.”