Steve Cooper's post-match reaction to Leicester City's 5-2 defeat at Man Utd in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night...
“Anybody that wasn’t here tonight will see the scoreline and think it was a dominant, straightforward, comfortable result for United. But it was everything but that. Okay, it was 5-2, and we conceded five goals, but there were circumstances around each goal.
“It was a brilliant strike from Casemiro, a really poor linesman’s decision for the second goal. The third and fourth were ricochets that haven’t gone where we wanted them to go, and we have to take responsibility that we could have done better on that as well. And then a giveaway for the fifth goal.
“In terms of how the game went… it was typified by the start of the second half to the fifth goal. We were completely dominant. I don’t think United entered our half and then we give away a goal like we did.
“It wasn’t quite the atmosphere we were expecting. We did talk about how there might be something different in the air tonight, but it wasn’t an absolutely fully-blown atmosphere. It was quite calm. That was a lot on the possession and the territory we had. But what we’ve done is hand United too many moments to cause damage. That’s something we have to take responsibility for.
“It’s strange to analyse. We’ll own the result and some of the goals. But in terms of the general game, I looked at some of the guys in the dressing room and thought: ‘You’ve done alright tonight.’ It’s turned into frustration and anger really but we need to turn it into motivation for the weekend.”