Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray maintains that he and his players want to get out of League One.
Speaking to the Coventry Telegraph, the City boss said: “I sit in the dressing room with this set of players and we’re all searching. “I’m the manager so I take a huge share of the responsibility for what’s going on out there
“But for 20-odd games we played some scintillating football, we could dominate whichever team we were playing, so it’s a bit harsh to suggest that other teams want it more. Nobody wants it more than this group – they are desperate to do well.
“We all want to get out of this league. It doesn’t look likely it will be this year because of our inability to score goals at the moment but they’ve got a lot of pride and they’re devastated in there because it’s another game gone with nothing to show for it.
“God knows how many penalties we’ve missed now.
“I think young players watch too many World Cups, too many Spanish footballers who stutter and check, try to give the keeper the eyes and roll it. I’ve just told them that if the next person who takes a penalty doesn’t put his foot through it and smash it they’ll be coming straight off.
“I think if we’d scored then the fans would have been really behind us, the team would have been on the front foot and we might have gone on and won it.
“It was very disappointing, very frustrating – very flat in the first 20 minutes; everybody felt ready in the dressing room but then we get that.
“The last 25 minutes of the first half was a lot better – we pushed forward, created some chances, got the penalty – but in the second half we just huffed and puffed enough and didn’t have enough to score a goal.
“We didn’t work their keeper enough and, bar the Bury game, that’s been a theme of the last few months. One’s never enough and if you don’t score you're obviously not going to win.
“But we dig in and carry on, We’ve got to go to Gillingham and Wigan now and if we don’t perform there we’ll really get found out.”
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