Christian Norgaard said we must look forward to the remainder of the season after exiting the FA Cup quarter-final at Southampton.
The Danish midfielder played the full 90 minutes as we lost out on the south coast. We take on Sporting CP in the Champions League quarter-final next week and Christian’s message was clear as we continue to compete on two fronts.
He said: “The message is to have a positive body language, to talk with your teammates, with the coaching staff. Now is not the time to go with our heads down for too long.
“It’s fine to be frustrated tonight and also tomorrow to analyse what went wrong, but then we also have to look forward because there are so many big games coming up for this club.”
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Reflecting on the game, Norgaard said: “Disappointing evening. We all had our hopes high to win today and go back to Wembley, but yeah, that’s not the case today. Sorry to disappoint so many travelling fans, they created an amazing atmosphere, and yeah, today was not good enough.
“It was a frustrating first half, but we had a really good period in the first half where we really had them, created a lot of set pieces, a lot of shots around the edge of the box and even also in the second half before we conceded 2-1,
“I think we had a really good period where we were on top of the game. So, we didn’t manage to score in those periods and then we were too poor in defending the two goals.”
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