Mehmet Ali was pleased with our willingness and attacking intent in the second half of Monday’s 5-3 defeat at home to Aston Villa under-21s.
The visitors went 5-1 up but two late goals from Ethan Nwaneri demonstrated our commitment to fight until the final whistle.
“I felt like we started the game well,” Mehmet said. “Obviously we went 1-0 up, we had good momentum, we had another couple of opportunities, but if you give teams opportunities like we did in 21s football then they’re going to punish you can credit to Aston Villa. They showed resilience because we started better but they kept going, got their rewards and got their goals and then we were chasing the game.