After the shocking performance in the match against Preston North End, the Sheffield Wednesday manager Xavi Röhl was quite rough and accused his team calling their performance lucky and admitting that the visitors were indeed deserved winners. While the Owls were lucky to have Michael Smith score an equalizer in the second half, Röhl was highly critical of his team’s performance.
According to Röhl: ‘Today we did not deserve anything’. Preston was more effective, dominant and had their fair share of possession, so they should have been winning. I think we were very lucky to get a point out of the match. That is not what I would like to see from my team.”
Röhl identified the mentality as a problem and believes that his team needs to play more aggressively at home and be better organized. “In this division, I would like to stress that, to perform really well, there are certain fundamentals which need to be met,” he added. ‘You have to be aggressive and nasty as well as be organised and of course have a good goalkeeper. Then you can grow into the game and start to play proper football.”
The German boss also pointed fingers at his team at their failure to score by converting their chances such as a penalty by Josh Windass. “We didn’t even get one point, Röhl said we gave up two points.” “We have to perform a reaction on Tuesday against Blackburn Rovers.”
Given that the Owls are preparing for a match against Blackburn Rovers next week, Röhl will expect the team to play much better. Anything less, and the pressure will remain pinned on the Sheffield Wednesday David Jones.