Liam Manning laments Huddersfield Town's decision-making following defeat to Stevenage
Huddersfield Town head coach Liam Manning lamented his side’s decision-making in their 1-0 defeat to Stevenage.
The Terriers were on course for a point on the road before Stevenage captain Carl Piergianni headed home an 85th-minute winner.
Huddersfield gave away a free-kick that led to the goal and Manning was left to rue his side’s lack of discipline.
Liam Manning reflects
Manning said: “You’ve got to be disciplined and not give away cheap free-kicks If you compare the second half to the first, we gave away more.
“When you get to the later stages, and you’re getting tired, you can’t make some of the decisions we did if you want to come away with something from the game.
“If it finishes 0-0, which it could have done, you come away thinking we’ve showed fight, and some togetherness, resilience and spirit and you accept it’s a bad game and move on.
“For me, it was a two-minute period where we kind of switched off a little bit, a few too many errors. That’s the frustrating bit, it’s probably on us again, it feels like it’s on us.”
Alex Revell’s verdict
Stevenage boss Alex Revell, meanwhile, said: “That’s what you have to do to win games and in this run we’ve been on, certain moments have really hurt us.
“But when you keep working as hard as these players do and they’ve got their head down and they’re concentrating on the information they’ve been getting from all the staff, you get your rewards.
“All I’ve asked is at the end of the season, you look at each other and say, do you know what, we’ve given it a right good go. And today we gave it a right good go.
“Carl Piergianni has been a rock for this club and he’s one of the best captains we’ve ever had here. For me, what he does for the players as a captain is fantastic.
“But you need to come out sometimes just to refocus and get your legs and show people what they’re missing, and over the past few days, I’ve seen him training at the level which is then also pushing others on.
“We have to have that in this group, we have to have that competition. And what we saw was him rising higher than anyone with an aggression to win the game for the football club, the badge, and for his players. There’s no better person to score the winner.”