No way was it our "plan" to sit back in the first half and invite them to give us a battering. They came out of the blocks gunning for us, rocked us onto the back foot before we could settle and all we could do was to resort to rearguard action. They were by far the better team and should have been out of sight at HT.
Credit to the coaches for lifting the team for the second half and spotting ways to neutralise their threat; thus enabing us to settle, slow the pace and start to play our game rather than theirs. Maybe 'born tired but it was us that had to do all the first half chasing so our lads were probably even more knackered than them.
It was a tactical victory but only in the sense that we stopped the rot. We did not deserve anything from this match other than taking a good look at ourselves in the mirror.
Tuesday is not going to be an easy stroll to Wembley Way, if we don't pull up our socks over this weekend there is every chance that this is all going to end in tears in front of our home fans.