Reaction From Bees Boss Uwe Rösler

Last updated : 02 September 2013 By Thetashkentterror

Brentford manager Uwe Rösler spoke to BBC London 94.9 after his side's 0-0 League One draw against Carlisle at Griffin Park, Rösler first reacting to Tony Craig's 65th minute sending off for the Bees following a foul on United's David Amoo:

“I have no complaints with the red card, it was a bad mistake in the first place with the touch and then maybe he should have stayed on his feet, I don’t know, but I have no complaints, I have seen it on the DVD and it is a red card. I spoke to the referee [David Phillips] afterwards and he says it is a one-match ban for a professional foul.

“I strongly disagreed on the disallowed goal though, I watched it on the DVD, I think Clayton Donaldson came on the side where the goalkeeper [Mark Gillespie] couldn’t see him. The goalkeeper struggled with the sun and Clayton outjumped him, he didn’t even touch him, he had his elbow up but there was no contact, it was a clear goal for us and that was definitely a wrong decision for that one.

“Carlisle did everything that we expected, they came out with the same formation, the same players, obviously we didn’t expect that they would get a centre-half in at the last minute. We had prepared the whole week for a certain way of play and didn’t think it would change. But, I think we gave the first 45 minutes away, we looked nervous, not only one player but we looked generally nervous.

“We lacked mobility, we lacked energy, we lacked movement off the ball, we lacked opportunities for the men on the ball. I don’t know why because eight or nine players didn’t play on Tuesday and were sat in front of the television when all the Carlisle players had played a tough game in the cup, so we should clearly have been at a better physical advantage compared to our opponents.

“In the first-half you couldn’t see that, but in the second-half I was happy because even with ten men the majority of the time we looked the better team. Then you could see how fit my players are, how much they were running around and how much quicker they passed the ball. It was all about the tempo of the play and one or two players gave more life.

“But, overall I think that from the 14 players who participated today we only had five players who performed, and that is not enough to win a game in our league. Will Grigg though had just recovered from injury, he had just had one training session with the whole team from the start to the end and that was on Friday.

“Today I didn’t want to bring him on at all when it was not needed, but obviously in the first-half already I saw that it was very much needed. He came on and I think with him in the team we had more movement upfront, which helped us. Afterwards he got a knock again and obviously in the last ten minutes he couldn’t move and we had used all our three substitutes so we were down to nine men, so at the moment he is in an unlucky spell.”