[21] David Moyes on the city defeat itself

[Red News]

"We never started well. We never gave ourselves a great opportunity to get into the game. Manchester City started really fast and conceding a goal after 30-40 seconds made it difficult. I just think we never came out of the blocks. You prepare the players, you warm them up, you do all the things to have them ready, but we just never started. It gave them a real big lift to get a goal so early on. We had to try to make sure we got through that 10-15 minute period when they were out of the blocks. After that, we weathered it and got ourselves back into the game and finished the half quite strong. The key to it was not to concede a second goal so we could always give ourselves a chance back in there, but I didn't think we started the second half well. We brought pressure on us by our play and in the end we conceded a corner just before that and there was another one and then that led to a goal. It was obviously poor marking and we should have done much better."