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Stoke boss Gary Rowett: We deserved the boos



Posted Thursday, August 23, 2018 by PA

Stoke boss Gary Rowett: We deserved the boos

Stoke boss Gary Rowett felt his players deserved the boos they received at the end of a 3-0 home defeat to Wigan and bemoaned a poor start.

The Potters are winless this term, and Rowett understands supporters’ concerns.

Following the heavy defeat, Rowett said: “I’m not going to try and justify any of that.

“We got the reaction that we absolutely deserved, I’m not going to absolve myself from that, we deserve to be booed, we deserve the stadium being half empty as we haven’t been good enough.

“I’ve got to say to them (fans) that I can completely understand their frustrations.

“I’m not sure whether you can say it was far worse than lots of games last season, it wasn’t a good game and I don’t think there have been many good performances for a long time.

“For 25 minutes we were excellent. It was fast and attacking, we had opportunities and a goal disallowed that was offside.”

Wigan boss Paul Cook felt his rampant Latics side were fortunate to beat the 10-man Potters.

Will Grigg inspired Cook’s men with a goal in each half, either side of Gavin Massey’s solo strike.

Wigan’s third came from the penalty spot 12 minutes after half-time as Grigg scored his second of the night after Joe Allen tripped Nick Powell before Ashley Williams was sent off for fouling Josh Windass.

But Cook feels his men were lucky, given Stoke’s early chances.

He said: “It was the perfect performance from us, everything has gone our way on the night. I thought Stoke started the game excellent, they put us under pressure and may feel like they could have scored a goal in their spell of pressure.

“We always felt we would have moments in the game and obviously tonight the key moments have gone our way.

“The goals were scored at a good time for us and it ends up being one of those performances where you say ‘yeah it looks good on paper, but I feel we won in a fortunate way’.

“Stoke not scoring early in the game was massive. We’ve conceded two very late goals and people have questioned our defending, but today we could deal with Stoke well.”

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