'I'll shake things up': Bruce says 'horrible' mistakes cost Hull City
STEVE Bruce admitted his Hull City side had "shot themselves in the foot" after another defensive horror show condemned the Tigers to a 3-2 defeat at home to Blackpool.
City were again guilty of signing their own death warrant last night as a lack of concentration gifted Blackpool an unlikely victory late in the game.
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A glum Steve Bruce saw City slip to a third successive defeat.
Despite initially conjuring their own comeback with goals from Sone Aluko and Stephen Quinn overturning Matt Phillips’ early opener, two soft goals were shipped in the final 20 minutes to seal City’s second home defeat in four days.
Substitute Kevin Phillips needed just three minutes to tap in from close range to level before he set up Nouha Dicko to punish Ben Amos’ unwise rush from goal as Blackpool snatched all three points.
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“The only thing we’ve got to stop is these ridiculous mistakes we are making,” said Bruce.
“The second goal came from us not picking up from a free-kick and the third one was full of individual
mistakes. That’s cost us the game.
“I didn’t think we deserved that but it’s very disappointing because I thought we’d have learned from
Saturday.
“We played really well against Peterborough and again with Blackpool, but we’ve shot ourselves in the foot again.”
After three consecutive defeats had fired the Tigers up to fourth last month, three defeats on the spin have since brought a fall to 10th in the Championship.
That sequence has seen City leak nine goals in three games and Bruce admits he will be forced into making changes when travelling to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.
“You can’t keep accepting the mistakes so the only thing I can do is shake it up a bit,” he said.
“Certainly with the injuries we’ve got, I think we’ll have to at Sheffield Wednesday and bring in a little bit of experience.
“It’s not all about shape, we’re being punished for basic mistakes.
“It’s horrible and we’ve had to score two wonder goals to get back into it.
“We’ve got to try and remain positive. It’s been a horrible week in terms of what we’ve conceded.
“In back-to-back home games we’ve done enough to win games but you can’t do that when you’re making the mistakes that we are.”
Blackpool boss Ian Holloway was delighted to escape with all three points and said: “It was a great advert for the Championship. It was two very good teams out there.
“That was as good a game as I’ve seen this season and it could have gone either way. I was delighted that it’s gone for us.”
• Alex Bruce is a major doubt for City’s trip to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday after limping off with a groin injury late in the first half of last night’s fixture.
Comments
by ruweller
Sunday, October 07 2012, 12:28AM
“Ambertigerfan,
Allums, Allams, more like Adams family?
Freaks.”
by BigBillyBilly
Friday, October 05 2012, 1:41AM
“SB is massively in credit with his signings,never mind that Proschwitz is not yet Miroslav Klose.The players will learn and improve.It's early days but if this team doesn't make the play offs at the VERY LEAST I'll be really disappointed because they have automatic promotion potential.With a little tweakage we could even stay in the Premier League,but to do that we have to believe our playing style is good enough.We are NOT West Ham,thankfully,or should I say Sam Allardyce's West Ham.Perhaps we can be the next John Lyall-type West Ham,a team that passes and moves for fun.
We need to find our own model,for sure,one in which the players believe,and can strive to improve.C'mon U 'Ull!”
by Ambertigerfan
Thursday, October 04 2012, 10:36PM
“ruweller: that's Allams, not Allums. That alone tells us a lot about your mentality.”
by ruweller
Thursday, October 04 2012, 9:53PM
“How much are the Bruce's dragging out of Hull a week you couldn't make it up? What next his missus as physio, lol. The Allums can't be as astute as they would have you believe?”
by ruweller
Thursday, October 04 2012, 9:35PM
“One Nigel Pearson.....................
It's mid table mediocrity for Hull this season.”
by Ambertigerfan
Thursday, October 04 2012, 9:16PM
“The City injury news gets worse; Fryatt out for this season and under the knife:
http://tinyurl.com/8pb8z3s
Time for the Proschwitz to prove his worth!”
by Cluhead
Thursday, October 04 2012, 3:30PM
“I believe I was correct on my assumption on Ben Amos. I think he has been a tad to eager and not comitted himself enough and when he does commit it is for all the wrong decisions. If I was Bruce I'd be giving Jakupovic a go to see if he can stop the onslaughts!”
by corrig
Thursday, October 04 2012, 11:32AM
“voicenreason. mckenna/evans to cut out space. opinion. neither of them are that good.certainly not for a side that hopes to push for promotion/playoffs”
by VoiceNreason
Thursday, October 04 2012, 11:12AM
“Whilst the defensive errors are well documented it would have been helpful to everyone if Steve Bruce had reinforced the midfield for the last 20 mins or so. McKenna and Evans would have cut out the space that allowed Blackpool to take control of the last 20 mins. That is a simple thing to do Steve and you also need to look at yourself. Oli was finished by 65mins and yet you did nothing. Not blaming Oli as a good manager would have known that. Lessons for the gaffer as well then.”
by JONIB
Thursday, October 04 2012, 10:20AM
“I'm not convinced it's the players anymore, they don't look happy with the system. If you go 442 then I honestly think you've got a problem with Koren. If you go 451 then it's back to NP and NB. One thing for sure, my mental state cannot handle the disappointment of walking out of the KC having watched City play some of the best football I've ever seen, coming away with nowt.
Think the availability will force him to go 4 at the back at Sheffield. How he sets up in front of that is out with the jury.”