Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that he has taken some of the blame for Saturday's 1-1 draw against Oldham Athletic.
City should have had the game sewn up before City old boy Danny Philliskirk equalised in second half stoppage time and Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner: “I take a proportion of the blame for that.
“At Sheffield United we needed to score a goal in the last ten minutes but we hadn’t really done enough planning on how to build up pressure on a team who are trying to protect a lead.
"This time the boot on the other foot and you have to ask yourself if we’d done enough work on defending solidly when we’re sitting on one goal.
“In my defence, Ben Turner was a big miss for us in the last ten minutes or so when it’s not just your positional play and physical strength that counts it’s your voice, your experience.
”You have to know how to narrow the team off and with no Sam Ricketts or Ben Turner we lacked that bit of leadership at the death.
"We didn’t have John Fleck, either, and that was important because he has that ability to put his foot on the ball and make the right decisions.
“But your forwards have to be clever in their counter-attacking positions; you can’t just stand up front and wait for a pass you have to put yourself in a position where when it’s headed out you can pick it up and run in behind teams.
“We were a bit naive in that which is understandable when you think that we ended the game with a very young team.
“But, as always, the important thing is to learn – we have to work at what went wrong and work out where we need to improve so we don’t make the same mistakes again.”
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