Silly Mistakes Led To Wasted Opportunity- Marcos Alonso
Silly Mistakes Led To Wasted Opportunity- Marcos Alonso Marcos Alonso says lessons from yesterday’s defeat at Arsenal must be learned quickly with another big London derby on the horizon. We under performed at the Emirates, eventually losing 2-0, although it was Alonso who came closest to scoring for us when he hit the post with a header on the stroke of half-time. The Spaniard also registered our only on-target effort of the evening, saved by Bernd Leno late on. Reflecting on what went wrong in north London, Alonso identified sloppiness in possession as one of the reasons for the defeat. With a decisive Carabao Cup semi-final tie against Tottenham awaiting us on Thursday night he knows our return to form must be swift. ‘We made silly mistakes,’ he said. ‘We provoked them to gain confidence and come to press us because we were making mistakes. In the second half we tried but it was too late and we couldn’t score. ‘When you lose, you learn. We have to analyse the