My players were crying in the dressing room, says Northampton boss Hasselbaink - 7M sport

My players were crying in the dressing room, says Northampton boss Hasselbaink



Posted Saturday, March 31, 2018 by PA

My players were crying in the dressing room, says Northampton boss Hasselbaink

Northampton’s crushing 4-0 home defeat to Charlton reduced some of their players to tears, according to manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

The struggling Cobblers slumped to an eighth game without a win as two goals from Tariqe Fosu, sandwiched between headers from Ben Reeves and Josh Magennis, earned the visitors an emphatic victory.

Hasselbaink said: “It was the first goal that did for us. We started well and that was what we wanted, but we get the goal against from a cross and the smallest man on the pitch heads the ball.

“That’s just not allowed. Everybody who knows me knows that we work a lot on those kind of things and that’s not really happened to us in the past.

“That was disappointing and then Charlton grew in confidence and we stopped pressurising them in numbers, in blocks and they picked us off.

“With the position we’re in, the confidence goes. You try to make a fight of it and you try to do something different, but this is a hard one for me to take, really hard, because we put a lot of preparation into the game.

“I knew it was going to be a difficult match, but I thought we would be a lot closer to them. I had boys in the dressing room crying afterwards so they do care, they really care.”

Lee Bowyer claimed his second win in as many games in temporary charge of Charlton, who are two points outside the play-offs.

“We scored four goals and it could have been a few more,” said the former England international.

“I said to the lads that I’m proud of them because everyone will look at the fact we scored four goals, but their work-rate and their togetherness means more to me than the goals.

“The players are in a good place at the moment and they need to stay there and I’m excited.

“You have to be on the front foot in any game and impose yourself on the opposition and we have the players to do that.

“I’ve tried to encourage them to work hard as a team and hunt in packs and it works. No matter who you play against, the best players in the world don’t like getting pressured and that’s all it is.

“It’s easy for me to say it, but the lads have to do it and they are and that’s the most pleasing thing for me.

“If we work hard and win the ball back quickly, we have the flair and the movement in the attacking third to cause teams problems.”

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