“We need to keep everyone focused and make sure we don’t carry any hangovers into this week. Be frustrated and disappointed. However, you must arrive prepared to work the next session. “It is a process, but we will accelerate it.

I told the lads in the changing room. “Changing myself, the coach, and new players will take time, but if we want to succeed, we must accelerate the process.” We must ensure that we do not make the same mistakes again on Tuesday or in the next league game.”

Manning admitted City faltered after a promising start and were punished by the well-drilled Lions.

“You can talk about tactics, but some of the decisions were not good enough. “We have to accept that,” he said. “We must accept responsibility for this and use it to improve ourselves.

“If I look back on the performance, we started extremely well for 25 minutes, gained good control, and played in their half of the pitch as we wanted to. We matched Millwall, particularly in the second half.

They are well-established and a little ahead of us in their journey.

We did not perform well enough under pressure to appear successful. “The second goal they scored was on us, not them or their style. Regardless of what they did, our fundamentals were lacking.

That caused the problems, not the shape or structure. Decision-making on the ball and working hard enough to maintain it. They are the areas in which we will grow and improve.”

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