Head coach Charlie Adam spoke to the media after his side’s narrow loss to top of the table Portsmouth and confirmed it was a game of two halves.
After the first 45 minutes, which saw the league leaders take the lead, Town had an opportunity for the Cods to take the game to them in the second half, but it wasn’t meant to be on the afternoon as Will Norris made a few stops on the afternoon.
Straight after the game, Charlie had this to say:
On the 90 minutes of football...
“When you give teams the opportunity in the first half, all they need is one moment and they took it, one pass opened us up and that was the game, I got stuck into them at half-time and I told them what I thought and what I expected of them.
“That first half was unacceptable, and I require vast improvement from them because when we conceded the goal and that is what cost us the game in the end. The second half was better, we showed fight, and we showed some good energy.
“The chances never fell for us; we will look back on it and we will have to go again next week - we had the handbrake on in the first half, maybe that comes from us as coaching staff, but we will take that and look back on it, but you can’t give a team like that the first half.”
On turning the tide around...
“We caused a good team problems, got on the front foot, and pressed a lot better which allowed us to get up the pitch. There are moments we have to work on, if we can put our system to 90 minutes then football matches will start to turn in our favour, and the players do respond well to our instructions.
“The spirit and the confidence in the building is good, we are together, and I know my lads will give us the effort and the passion on a Saturday, the first half was definitely unacceptable and I require a vast improvement.
“These Saturdays to Saturdays are important because in February we go back to Saturday, Tuesday and for late nights and travelling we need to get that first win as soon as we can.”
On the fight shown by Bosun Lawal and Brendan Wiredu...
“I love them both, on what Bosun has done since he has come from the club in terms of his base, his size, his physicality anyone can see what he did with the ball today for a lad his size, there isn’t many midfielders that have the ability to work with what he has got.
“Unfortunately, he isn’t our player, but for the season he is, he’s at a big to have him here at Fleetwood, hopefully in the next coming months he will return to Celtic a better player than he came here.
“Brendan is a player we have here, you can see the smile on his face and signing that contract shows how committed he is to this football club, he believes in what we are trying to do and again he offers a few positions, he does really well he has great size and great physicality he is really one for the future.”