Northampton loss “difficult to take” for Bristol Rovers

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Bristol Rovers lost away at Northampton Town on Saturday with Head Coach Iñigo Calderón struggling to hide his disappointment at the loss. Daniel Wales reports.

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00:00Anigo Calderon had been left incredibly frustrated after his side's loss away at Wiccamondras in League One,

00:07given that it was two quick-fire goals that won the tie for the hosts.

00:10Away form has let the gas down for too much of this season,

00:13but they had a chance at redemption against Northampton Town on Saturday.

00:18However, Bristol Rovers' away form did not improve and instead continued to plague them,

00:24despite taking the lead early on in the second half against Northampton thanks to Scott Sinclair.

00:29Things were looking positive until Dara Costello and then Nesta Guinness-Walker

00:33turned the game on its head to leave the gas empty-handed.

00:38Reflecting on the game, head coach Anigo Calderon struggled to hide his disappointment

00:44after an encounter that was there for the taking from a Bristol Rovers' perspective,

00:49but that ultimately ended up in a disappointing loss.

00:54Obviously, winning away is a difficult one to explain.

01:02I think the game was nothing in the game. It was a bit dead.

01:06Sometimes that's risky as well because you can switch off.

01:10It was just a split of a second that we switched off and it cost us too much.

01:18It was a free-kick just across. I don't think we were struggling at that time.

01:24Even if I don't remember badly, I think we had a chance before the free-kick that we scored the first one.

01:30I would say it was more the second one for us than the equaliser for them.

01:36It's a difficult one to explain if we want to take, but we had to take on the chest and we had to move forward.

01:43I spoke with the boys in the half-time. I think the game was more or less there.

01:49Obviously, nothing spectacular. You can't expect anything spectacular today coming here,

01:53but I think the game was more or less what we wanted.

01:56Obviously, scoring just coming off the reserve room, that's everything you want.

02:02After that, I think we probably stopped playing too early.

02:05That gave them the chance to find their way somehow, but still I don't think it was the case.

02:12I don't think we were struggling too much or defending too much.

02:16It was a dead game. There was nothing happening.

02:19I would say they were under control and all of a sudden they had a free-kick in the second phase.

02:24We conceded and everything changed a little bit after that.

02:28Calderon knew only too well that improving the club's away form was going to be the top priority for the rest of the season

02:36if the Gata to survive the drop.

02:39Well, I just keep saying to the boys that try to work harder.

02:43Try to be calm. You cannot lose your head.

02:46Obviously, we have to improve because otherwise it's going to be a single game at home

02:51and it's going to be a final because we cannot win our way.

02:53Let's go now and hope the next game is going to be at home against a difficult opponent, similar to today.

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