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MOWBRAY POST WATFORD


Tony Mowbray suffered a hamstring injury celebrating Patrick Roberts' equaliser yesterday. But he's glad the team are still in the play-off picture, and they know what they need to do at Preston now...


CLARITY

"We have real clarity now, we have to go and win at Preston. The teams around us have tough games on paper so you never know - we have to go there and win, we have to be aggressive right from the off and then see what happens. I'm pretty relaxed about it, we've given ourselves a really good opportunity on the last day of the season and we'll take a huge crowd there with us. We're going to take 6,000 fans there, and let's hope at the end it is a big party."


DESERVED A DRAW

We deserved something out of the game. We talked about playing the match in front of us and not the occasion. It's an experience I think and I think they have to go through games like today. The fans were amazing, they stuck with the team and kept them going."


LIFE EXPERIENCES

"Like anything in life, you have to live the experience to get better and stronger and I think this team will do that. They are getting used to the challenge of playing here. I enjoyed the game today, I didn't enjoy the two goals going in our net but I thought we stuck at what we're good at, we moved the ball across the pitch and tried to cut through them. Late on, we got enough bodies in the box and we got our reward."


PRIDE

"I've told the players how proud I am of the effort they give me every game, and I hope the supporters enjoy watching them work hard and trying to play football with the ball. They need support and they get that, I feel it's a good place. We're already looking forward to next week. I'm proud of the way they keep going, and you have to be proud of how quickly they're learning."


ANOTHER INJURED CENTRE HALF!

"I'm sitting here in a bit of a discomfort, I think I've got a hamstring injury. I've never had one of these in 18 years of playing because I was never fast enough, and yet when that goal goes in I've obviously moved a bit quickly. Our treatment room is pretty full but I'll have to try and grab a physio. I don't know if I'll be fit next week, but I will be there."


CONCEDING FROM CORNERS

"Without over-highlighting it, that was a real issue for us. We did amazingly well at West Brom to keep them out [from set-pieces last weekend], because I said at the end there they seemed to be bringing on the Harlem Globetrotters at the end - everyone that came on was 6ft 5in - yet we still managed to see that out. Today we didn't quite deal with Watford's set-plays."


ACHILLES HEEL

"We know it's an Achilles heel without Ballard and without Batth and Alese and Ross Stewart - there's four players that would definitely help that scenario, but they are not available. It's difficult when they've got big, aggressive, guys who make a living by heading balls."


LOAD THE BOX

"Someone there in my office just said 'have you thought about putting two players up the pitch?' but my view on that is that the more space you give big guys to run into, the more dangerous they become because the more likely they are to win headers. I try to fill the box up with loads of bodies so they can't get a clear run."


PATIENCE

"They damaged us a bit today on set-plays and yet we kept on going to the very death and got our rewards. We showed reasonable patience at the end, we were flooding the box in the last 20 minutes."


ROBERTS

"And then Pat Roberts is a guy I've said I couldn't believe when I first came to this club that he had been playing in League One, and he does what he does. He's an amazing footballer and cometh the hour, cometh the man, really. He had one in the first half that he just didn't get his toe around that could easily have bent in off the far post, but then when we needed him right at the death he put one in the top corner."


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