Wanderers Head Coach Steven Schumacher reflected on his side’s “disappointing” 3-0 defeat away at Burton Albion in Sky Bet League One on Saturday afternoon.
The Whites were defeated at the Pirelli Stadium after goals from Jake Beesley (x2) and Fabio Tavares earned Gary Bowyer’s Brewers all three points.
Following on from full-time in Staffordshire, Schumacher gave his honest assessment to Wanderers TV.
Schumacher said: “It’s disappointing. We’ve got to find a way to win these types of games away from home, we spoke to the lads all week about the type of challenge we were going to face today, coming to a team who are very direct and difficult to play against on a tough pitch, so we spoke about trying to be a bit more direct and playing it forward, playing with runners in behind and causing a problem.
“From the first minute of the game, when we get in, if we take that opportunity when Sam goes round the goalkeeper, it’s probably a different story, but we’ve said that before and we need to find a way to fix that.
“We should have been 2-0 up, Sam had another big chance, and from that goal kick that we miss, the big opportunity, they go down the other end and get a penalty, which I’m not sure is a penalty, but we’ve conceded three goals from three goal kick restarts which is really disappointing.
“We have got to do the basics right, we can talk about tactics and styles and how we break things down, but if you don’t defend goal kicks properly, you have got a problem.
“Once they score, they put 11 men behind the ball and made it difficult for us to break down, the pitch isn’t easy, it was really slow and bobbly, and it’s what you expect from a tight stadium away from home, and we have to try and make sure that we make good decisions and I thought our quality in the final third suffered.
"We did have a couple of big chances in the second-half to get one back at least, the keeper made a few good saves and it didn’t manage to happen, so it’s another game where we’re disappointed to lose in.
“It’s something we need to fix and we can’t keep giving ourselves a mountain to climb, with 45, 50 minutes of the second-half to play, you have to concentrate, and from another goal kick, we had the ball, Aaron Morley goes down, we play the ball back to him while he’s on the floor and they counter attack on us and catch us, they get a bit lucky with the shot that Teddy saves and it comes back to their centre forward, so it becomes more difficult for us, it’s disappointing but it’s something we’ve got to learn from.”
Wanderers head to Huddersfield Town on Thursday night and Schumacher believes that it presents a good opportunity to “put things right” against the Terriers.
Schumacher added: “Thursday night gives us a chance to try and put it right, it’s going to be a completely different style of game, a team who will make a couple of passes and it won’t be the same as what we faced, so we have to make sure that we recover and bounce back and try and get the result that we want away from home and we’ll have to find a way to pick up points away from home as at the moment, it’s not good enough.”
Watch Steven’s full post-match interview on Wanderers TV by clicking here.