John Sheridan cannot believe that his team did not take maximum points against Shrewsbury Town on Saturday. The 2-1 defeat leaves the Latics rooted at the bottom of League One but Shez was still bemused.
He said, “We were playing top of the league, we didn’t start the game well for the first 10 or 15 minutes we were a bit flat. They scored a goal and for some reason that just gave us a bit of a kick up back side and then I think we were the best team for the remaining 25 minutes and got back in it with a good goal. I think we were the team looking to go on and score the second goal. We came out at half time and were on top of the game. If Doyle scores the game is totally different and we had some more good chances as well. They had a couple of good chances towards the end of the game when I was throwing people on and trying to chase the game but even both goals again are just very poor, ours is a good goal and theirs were really poor. I say it every week when we’re conceding but if you look at them and reflect on how they’ve ended up scoring it’s just disappointing.”
“When you’re at the bottom some things just don’t go for you, you’ve got to make your own luck. I thought the performance was ok considering who we were playing, Shrewsbury have started the season really well so I give them respect. Other than first 10 or 15 minutes and the last 10 minutes when we were chasing the game, we were the better team and at half time I was confident we’d go on and win the game and I think we would have if we’d have taken our chances. But it wasn’t to be and again we’ve got to take it on the chin. It’s a downer getting nothing from the game but there were good things and we looked like we were going to score goals again but it just didn’t work for us.”