Coventry City manager Steven Pressley has said that he is sorry for the 3,866 City supporters who were at Meadow Lane to see the Sky Blues beaten 3-0 on Saturday.
“I could smell it,” Pressley said to the Coventry Telegraph's Alan Poole. “I could sense it from two minutes in when we didn’t press the first ball and their player was able to get his head up and play the pass that he chose to play. That’s not us – that’s not the Coventry City that I want to create.
“You can work on systems all week but it’s the players who have to provide the hunger that makes your system work, that allows you to be a cohesive unit when you go to pressure the ball and that was lacking in our performance today
“It’s not often that I say this about my team but I thought they looked hungrier than us. I speak a lot about the intensity of our work but we just didn’t have that, certainly not in the first half – it was slightly better in the second but still not to the levels that I expect.
“I’m sorry we couldn’t do better for the fans who again turned out in their numbers and deserved something better. There are going to be disappointments but we have to eradicate performances like that and make sure they became few and far between.
“I obviously said a number of things at half-time and after the game because I was brought here to try to change the culture, to bring a winning mentality to the club.
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“We’ve progressed in that manner but we can’t be a side that does it one game out of two – it’s got to be every single week and the players are aware of that.”