Nolan 'really, really angry' after another bad defeat for Cobblers
Kevin Nolan described himself as ‘really, really angry’ by the manner in which his side succumbed to defeat at Rotherham on Tuesday.
Cobblers, leading 1-0 through Tom Eaves, were seemingly in control 58 minutes into the game at the New York Stadium but a simple corner saw Harry Gray nod in before Emmanuel Adegboyega capitalised on more slack marking to score the winner from a free-kick.
"It’s two set-piece goals that have let us down,” said Nolan. “The way we’ve defended both of those set-pieces are so poor and to lose the game like that is really disappointing.
"All we can do is learn from it because I’ve said to them – you can’t gift teams goals like we are at the minute. We have to learn and we have to learn quickly. I see the quality they have in training but they are not producing it on the pitch. Our transitions are really poor when we have opportunities on the ball.
"I thought we were good in the first half and we deserved to be one up, it was a good goal, and for the first 15 minutes of the second half we weren’t under any pressure, but then someone goes and does something they want to do instead of doing the right thing and Rotherham get back into the game.
"It’s a really difficult one for me to take because of the manner of it. I’m really, really angry with what’s happened tonight.”