Liam Rosenior delivers Hull City verdict on Watford’s ‘miracle goal’

Hull City head coach Liam Rosenior was left perplexed at the way his side suffered a 2-1 home defeat to resurgent Watford at the MKM Stadium, despite a really encouraging display. Having fallen behind early, City[1] responded within two minutes when Scott Twine powered in the equaliser after Liam Delap's threatening run was halted. Jacob Greaves was fouled inside the box[2] on the hour and from the penalty, Jaden Philogene saw his spot-kick saved by Ben Hamer.

With City pushing for a winner after Philogene's setback, Watford skipper Wesley Hoedt lobbed Ryan Allsop from 40-plus yards[3] to seal a 2-1 success. Creating 23 attempts at goal, City found Hamer in inspired form, but despite the obvious disappointment of their three-game winning run at the MKM Stadium, the Tigers head coach was full of praise for his side. "It's weird because I always said when I came in, I would always tell the truth as much as possible," Rosenior told Hull Live. "I can't remember in my playing or management career feeling like this after a game. "I'm so happy with so much, but yet we end up losing a game that if we'd have drawn, I'd have been disappointed from the performance.

I thought some of our play was outstanding, our dominance in the second half. Even after the penalty miss, we looked like the team are going to score and go on (and win it)." Hoedt's lofted effort from just inside his own half after he disposed Delap caught out Ryan Allsop who appeared to lose the flight of it, as it dipped into the back of his net.

Rosenior, though, was keen to point fingers. "They score an absolute miracle goal, the mistakes from our end and mistakes going to happen because we're young in the way I asked the team to play. But what I'm not going to do is get (down).

It's not a crisis that is an outstanding performance and on another day, I think we win that game by two, three or more goals than them and got a credit to them. "They've got a good athletic, energetic team who stayed in the game and took advantage of their moments. And unfortunately for us on the day, we didn't.

But I think if we play that game again 99 times out of 100 at that performance level, we win the game. It's an absolute miracle strike. "I always speak about reliability in our own half.

I thought Liam Delap's performance was absolutely super, super up to that and I thought he was top. "I think he's improving every game. It was probably the one moment in the game where he didn't have reliability in the field where he tries to turn the lad nicks it and he hits an absolute wonder strike, you know, and, and it dips right at the last moment.

So I'm not going to throw blame out, blame me because I asked the players to play this way, but we wouldn't be talking about that moment."

References

1. ^ City (www.hulldailymail.co.uk)
2. ^ Jacob Greaves was fouled inside the box (www.hulldailymail.co.uk)
3. ^ Watford skipper Wesley Hoedt lobbed Ryan Allsop from 40-plus yards (www.hulldailymail.co.uk)
4. ^ Hull City player ratings vs Watford as Tigers beaten by stunning goal (www.hulldailymail.co.uk)