Lee Johnson left angered over Bristol City's performance against Brentford. The head coach was frustrated by the players in the first half and felt the fans deserved an apology from him. Lee Johnson was angered by Bristol City’s first-half performance against Brentford at Griffin Park. Beaten 2-0 by goals from Sergi Canos and Lasse Vibe in the 18 and 26 minutes respectively, the Robins were second best throughout the opening 45 minutes. Bitterly frustrated by his team’s showing before the break, City’s head coach apologised to the 1,660 fans who made the journey from Bristol to West London. Visibly upset, Johnson fumed: “It made me angry the way we played in the first half. We just didn’t start at all and I feel it is right to apologise for that first half display. “We had a good game-plan, but individuals didn’t get their game going and I didn’t see it coming. This is what I find really frustrating, because we went into this game in good form and on the back of ten days’ really good work on the training ground. “There can be no excuses. Only Bailey Wright has an excuse, because of the jet setting he did with Australia in the build-up. But there are no excuses for the rest of them.” City improved after the break, carved out three clear-cut goal-scoring opportunities and hit the post twice. Johnson admitted: “We changed things tactically and put more men in the middle of the park and things got better. But it was too little, too late really. “Had Tammy Abraham’s header gone in and Matty Taylor taken that good chance soon afterwards, we might have pegged Brentford back. But you have to take chances at key times in games and we didn’t do that.” http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/lee-johnson-left-angered-over-17071
Against Brentford dire and we end up a bunch of losers, yet again, what happens if Preston put the boot in, how long must we continue putting up with this continuing misery, since Oct 1st we have played 32 league games, we have W6, D7 and L19, points wise that is 25 points gained and 71 points lost, that is nearly 3 times more points lost than won.. All this achieved with a £15m plus spend, the best goalscoring loanee in the football league and a bundle of players of his own choice, 2 complete transfer windows and his own choice of coaching styles and personel. What has this little individual failure got to influence SL, I don't get it and there are thousands of us who's cash they are not going to get in advance ticket sales, we could still make an effort to change things even at this late stage, get Harry Redknapp or someone of his ilk in even if there is only 7 games left, if nothing else it would curtail Jnr's antics and give us a chance to hold on to our Championship status...
I'm tired of him pretending to be a decent manager and he should have gone a while ago. We were absolutely shocking today with no evidence of team play and the defence were torn apart down the flanks and the thought of relegation now looms large if we can't improve on today. I'm not holding my breath for a miracle, but we sure need one, and the man in charge isn't up to the task.
Very dissapointing today, 2 sloppy goals, a few missed chances and a lot of poor final balls. Showed some potential going forward 2nd half though
Yes it was a bit better in the second half but we need a full 90 minutes if we are to stay up, and even that may not be enough.
No good just blaming the players.Yes, they have to carry out the plan but surely any manager carries the responsibility in any walk of life. Some players astonish me how they can seemingly go from the sublime to the ridiculous in the space of one game. Tomlin and Bryan are 2 that seem to do this often. Bryan a bit too often for me. From what I hear, had a bad one on Saturday. Leads me to question how many are really championship standard. Our league position after 39 games would suggest not enough.
