Wimbledon manager Johnnie Jackson :

Wimbledon manager Johnnie Jackson highlighted some positives in the side’s performance against League One leaders Cardiff City, despite the defeat.


Johnie Jackson:


On the game itself:


“They're a good side, one of the best teams in the league. They've shown that consistently throughout the season.

“In the end, that's telling, but I felt for long periods we were in the game. I'm disappointed with a couple of the goals. Obviously, they've got the ability to unlock you - they probably did with their third and fourth, but the first two - set pieces and to give two away in that way is disappointing.

“You want them to have to work harder for that. The third one probably takes the game away from us, but the second one, when we started the second-half so well and I felt like we were actually in control of the game, then we give up a corner from a counter attack and they score from it and now we're chasing again.

“So probably, in those moments, [it may] have cost us tonight. We kept going for it, kept pushing forward to try and get back into the game. We've had 16 shots tonight. We've hit the post at the end there.

“We continued to go for it and it can leave you open. We got picked off for probably the third and fourth, but I'd much rather that than come here and just try and shut up shop, stay in shape and all that and not create anything and get beat anyway.

“So I'm not happy that we've lost, but I think we've still seen enough from the team going forward. If we continue to play the way that we're playing, we're going to pick up a lot of points, but tonight they just had too much quality in certain moments.”

On the performance as a whole:


Johnie Jackson:


“Not a lot of teams come here and do that, but we've lost 4-1, so we can't pat ourselves on the back for 16 shots, but I think it shows what we're trying to do.

“We're trying to be aggressive. We're trying to really step on and take the game to teams, whether they're top of the league or not and we're creating a hell of a lot more going forward.

“It leaves us a little bit more open and a team like Cardiff have got the players that can unlock you and they've done that a couple of times. They scored a couple of really good goals, but again, two of them are avoidable.

“We've had our moments and we haven't scored, they've made a lot of blocks, 2-1, Matty has an unbelievable chance and he's really unlucky. I don't think he's done a lot wrong, but it's an inch past the post, 2-1, that goes in.

“And that's as good a chance as there probably was all night. So if you want to get anything in, you need a lot to go your way and not enough has tonight.

“There are some things that we have to be better at, we'll always look at that. The set-pieces will be a big part of that, because we've had plenty of opportunities ourselves in corners.

“We've had a fair few corners and we score from one of those situations, so for that to be a bit of a difference is a slight disappointment. There's a lot of positives from the night. The result is not one of them, but I think the team is still in a good place.”

Fair play to Wimbledon, I thought they were very good, probably one of the best teams we’ve had at the CCS this season as they caused us some real problems at times.
4-1 was a strange shoreline as if we had been a bit more clinical it could have been 6 or 7.

Can't argue with any of those comments from Jackson.

Fair play to them for their approach, tried to take the game to us. I didn't expect them to, thought they'd sit back and try to frustrate us.

But because they did try and take the game to us, it's very difficult to do that at CCS for 90 minutes against our team.

Thought they did ok to be fair and the crowd they brought.

I knew this would be a tough game
I thought they would park the bus

But they shocked me how well they pressed in the first half and they looked good going forward

We were just too good for them in the end

On the performance as a whole:


Johnie Jackson:


“Not a lot of teams come here and do that, but we've lost 4-1, so we can't pat ourselves on the back for 16 shots, but I think it shows what we're trying to do.

“We're trying to be aggressive. We're trying to really step on and take the game to teams, whether they're top of the league or not and we're creating a hell of a lot more going forward.

“It leaves us a little bit more open and a team like Cardiff have got the players that can unlock you and they've done that a couple of times. They scored a couple of really good goals, but again, two of them are avoidable.

“We've had our moments and we haven't scored, they've made a lot of blocks, 2-1, Matty has an unbelievable chance and he's really unlucky. I don't think he's done a lot wrong, but it's an inch past the post, 2-1, that goes in.

“And that's as good a chance as there probably was all night. So if you want to get anything in, you need a lot to go your way and not enough has tonight.

“There are some things that we have to be better at, we'll always look at that. The set-pieces will be a big part of that, because we've had plenty of opportunities ourselves in corners.

“We've had a fair few corners and we score from one of those situations, so for that to be a bit of a difference is a slight disappointment. There's a lot of positives from the night. The result is not one of them, but I think the team is still in a good place.”

Nice one Johnie, we love it when teams come and have a go, so much easier and a better game to win, you were a bit lucky we took it easy and missed a few, otherwise it could have easily been six plus.

Fair play I thought Wimbledon played well , and a good twaveling support , I wish them luck for season with good positive attacking football instead of coming for a draw ,