Louis laments Wasps sting

“It has come back to bite us for not being clinical and seeing the game out by adding goals to the ones that we already scored.

Louis Longridge gave the media his thoughts on the Irn Bru Cup on Saturday clutching his post match pasta. He agreed that he possibly should have been holding the match ball to mark three goals during the game.

“I had a few opportunities, I was winding a few of the boys up saying do I still get the ball for scoring my penalty in the shoot out? I don’t think that I get it for that but I had a couple of other chances. I maybe should have gone myself but I was trying to get other boys goals as well. We had to try and put the game to bed.

“It has come back to bite us for not being clinical and seeing the game out by adding goals to the ones that we already scored. I felt that we had been totally dominant for the period from when I scored the penalty and the period of fifteen to twenty minutes after.

“We knew what to expect, Alloa were going to grind it out and would stick in hoping for just one opportunity. They managed to get that from a mistake on our part. The boy has done well, followed one in and they got the goal.

“That is what they had been holding on for and they managed to get it. Then when it goes into a shoot out it is fifty fifty. You are hoping that the keeper makes a save and you score all yours. It wasn’t meant to be so it is frustrating on our part considering I felt that we were totally dominant for large parts of the game. Not to be through to the next round is disappointing.”

There were twenty minutes left when Alan Trouten scored the goal to make it 2-2 but Louis agreed that there were several good chances for his hat trick and for Dunfermline to win the game. He continued:-

“They were hanging on trying to hit on the counterattack. We still had a lot of the ball and they were only getting their chances through mistakes and slack passing from us.

“I felt that we still had the opportunity to go and win the game, we were trying to do that. It is hard when a team sits in and defends resolutely. They were good and they have been doing it all season.

“You have to be clinical when you get the opportunities. There were a couple of balls put in where maybe people should have been following in. Tired legs, rainy day, heavy pitch but in my eyes we should have won the game as were so comfortable.

“You have to take your hat off to Alloa because they have put in a hell of a shift. They have got a positive result and into the next round.”

It is always said when sides exit cup competitions that the league is the priority and there is no doubting Dunfermline’s ambitions in that respect. Promotion is the goal and with that exclusion from the Irn Bru Cup. Louis is confident that is a possibility:-

“If we perform like that we will win most weeks but you want to win every game, you want to get as far in every competition that you are in. I can’t really say ‘that’s fine we can focus on the league now’ because we are out the cup and we wanted to progress in the cup, go far in this competition and maybe go all the way. It is not to be this year.

“It is disappointing, we cannot lose our focus too much. We have to put it to bed now, we can’t dwell on it as we have an important league game next. We need to push as far up the league as we can and hopefully we are in contention at the top come the end of the season.”

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