Clark Frustrated By First Half Display

Blues boss Lee Clark was not happy with how his side performed in the first half of Monday’s defeat at home to Wolves.

After City went in at half time three goals down, Clark said that the performance in the first 45 minutes was woeful.

Blues managed something of a fight back in the second half and pulled back two goals through Wade Elliott although both started with the ball on the penalty spot

But Blues wasted chance after chance in the second half and could really have pulled off getting all three points had they been a little less wasteful in front of goal.

But as it was Wolves hung on for a valuable victory which left the City boss feeling very frustrated.

He told reporters after the game: ‘Quite simply, without the ball in the first half we were rubbish, with it we were decent.

‘With it in the second half we were decent again and without it we were good. But in the first half we were woeful.

‘Three or four players weren’t at it and you can’t have that. With the ball, you can have three or four players maybe not having a great day but without it, you have to have 11 putting a shift in.

‘I think we got a little bit caught up and excited about what happened on Friday, thinking we could just turn up and play our football, forgetting you’ve got to win the battles.

‘It’s a very frustrating day for us when you think if we’d got three points we could have gone eighth in the table.’