Manager reaction to Stoke draw

Last updated : 14 December 2024 By Michael Morris

The managers

Stoke's Narcis Pelach:

"Of course I understand [the booing], and they are right to do it.

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"I'm not angry with this because they are not pleased with what they have seen and I'm on the same page because we need to go on the football pitch and compete better than we did.

"There is a feeling of anger and disappointment - I'm really disappointed with the performance we put in today and I feel like this is unacceptable.

"Of course I am responsible for this, but we have to compete much better than we did today.

"We talk about competitiveness and at the minute, it looks like we don't understand what it is.

"Competing in football means win your duels and win your second balls, and we lost plenty of that, so of course it is my responsibility but if we want to win this league, we need to win duels and second balls.

"If the 50-50 ball is for them and not for you, you are defending and not attacking."

Cardiff's Omer Riza:

"The main thing about today's game was a reaction off the Preston game because it was unsatisfactory from all our standards.

"I'm very pleased with them in respect to how they performed and the way we went 1-0 down and still showed the desire and the grit to get back in the game.

"We were very close to getting a win and we're disappointed not to take three points.

"If I need to make changes because I'm not happy with what happened the previous week, there's players who can come in and do a job and, to a man, today they were excellent, so I was pleased with that.

"To take three points today coming off a loss against Preston at home would have been brilliant for us, and they deserved three points, but if you give fouls away around the edge of the box in the 95th minute, you always put yourself in dangerous waters."