Rob Stanton Rd 1, Newcastle Herald, October 19, 2024

Jets coach Rob Stanton after loss to Melbourne City

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00:00I don't like to use the word better team when you lose or

00:03Dominant or whatever because I think it's just disrespectful to the opponent even though you might the stats might say that

00:09I'll have a closer look at where we had the ball and how long we had it for and the

00:12Penetration we had and things like that, but I I won't say we were the better team

00:17I thought we had we pinned a very very good team in for long periods, but in saying that

00:22They were down to 10 men. The best part of the game was the first whistle the second half until the red card

00:27I thought we 11 be 11. I thought we fixed things and I thought we had good control there and creating

00:34More chances the the send-off just made it maybe more difficult

00:39because they were more than we need to have more protective mode in two banks of four and and less likely to

00:45To step out and then we had to provoke and we had to find ways to expose them and overload them in wide areas

00:51And get balls in so