Paolo in the press
“That’s not the performance we were after, we’re certainly disappointed but we will go home, have a look at it and see exactly where we went good, work on it and hopefully learn from it,” Okon said.
“Our next match is the #F3Derby our full focus is on that now, another important game.
“We were slow out of the blocks, we didn’t have the possession we wanted to have and we didn’t really move and offer support when we had the ball which made it easier for Wellington to press us and we turned over the ball far too cheaply in that first half.
“You never want to lose a player after 25 minutes, [Scott Galloway] it’s nothing serious but we probably won’t know until it settles down over the next 48 hours.
“We had plenty of support travel down from the Central Coast so I am a little bit sad that we weren’t able to send them home with a smile on their face.
“When we moved the ball and when we executed what we work on and what we speak about before the game I thought we looked dangerous. It wasn’t that often in the first half but in the second half we had chances to sneak a goal and that probably would have given us a different type of ending to the game but it wasn’t to be. Wellington fully deserve their victory.
“I don’t want to take anything away from Roy Krishna who is a very dangerous attacker but we probably didn’t defend how we needed to in those situations which is a big reason why Wellington scored two goals.
“That’s probably our worst performance of the season so far, certainly that first half and tonight wasn’t at the level we expected, it needs to be better next week.
“Connor is a threat, he gives us that penetration when we’re able to break lines. This is his sixth game this season and I don’t think Connor would be able to remember when he put six A-League games together so it’s a long road, he’s still not at the level of fitness to be at the level we want for 90 minutes. He’s certainly working hard and hopefully after a few more weeks he should get to that level of fitness that’s required,” Okon said.
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