REACTION: Leicester City vs Newcastle United


By Matthew Jones
December 27 2003

Darren Ambrose bagged Newcastle's goal on Friday to make sure the Magpies' earned a point at Leicester City after Paul Dickov's opened the goalscoring for Leicester. Sir Bobby Robson and Leicester's Micky Adams speak about the game.

MATCH REACTION

Darren Ambrose bagged Newcastle's goal on Friday to make sure the Magpies' earned a point at Leicester City after Paul Dickov's opened the goalscoring for Leicester.

SIR BOBBY: "He can get a goal, Ambrose. He knows where the goal lies and he's got a good shot, right and left foot, although he scored in the air today.

"He gets in the box - he nearly got us a late winner last week. He almost got on the end of LuaLua's cross.

"It wasn't a classic, I have to admit. There was a swirling wind, which didn't help really, the conditions, but you've got to play to the conditions.

"I thought both teams played from back-to-front too much. It was too much long-ball for me. The team that got the ball down and tried to pass it in sequence was going to be the one to win it.

"At half-time, we just said 'It's there for us to win, but we've got to be better'. Their danger didn't come from open play, it came from corners and free-kicks, and we dealt with it.

"As long as we did that, I didn't see any reason why they were going to score against us, so when the goal came, it was a surprise."

MICKY ADAMS: "I'm certainly disappointed to come so close to getting a win in the Premier League, but not surprised.

"Without being too disrespectful to my players, I thought they gave me everything they've got again.

"But we've got ourselves into so many positions this season of winning games and we haven't seen it through. That's happened to us a few times this year.

"But it's very very difficult to be critical of a group of players who have given you everything.

"What I want is to be competitive at this level and sometimes, that's really hard if you haven't spent millions of pounds. But at least we've given teams a game."

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