Late Goal Pleases Lennon

Manager Neil Lennon has said he was pleased to see Bolton fight until the end in the game against Blackpool as we secured ourselves a late equaliser.

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Changing the script somewhat and scoring, rather than conceding, at the death of the game left Lennon with a smile on his face at the full time whistle but obviously there was disappointment with trailing for so long and not getting all three points against the side bottom by some margin of the Championship table.

As can be seen by the comments in the Lennon Audio piece, there was a lot more disappointment from the fans who watched it.

In quotes carried by the Official Site the main positive for the manager was we kept going to use that cliche.

‘I felt that we could`ve been here until Christmas and not scored at certain points in the game. We missed so many gilt-edged chances today, but I think we got the least we deserved, although I think we should have won the game given our opportunities. We missed so many easy chances, but what happened today is a role reversal of what`s been happening to us a lot in the last couple of months. We`ve battered Blackpool, particularly in the second half which has very pleasing, but we were massively disappointed with our performance in the first half.’

Lennon went on to describe it as ‘definitely one of the most frustrating afternoons that I`ve had’ but that was what gave rise to his pleasure, because the team kept going, and kept plugging away even if it was largely wasteful or lacking a real spark.

‘We kept going and the character which we showed pleased me immensely, plus we got the goal that we deserved. You`ve got to give Blackpool credit – Lee Clark set them up very well, motivated them well and they scored a very good goal, but with the chances we missed we should`ve been home and hosed instead of scraping a late point.’

Experienced duo Emile Heskey and Eidur Gudjohnsen came in for special praise from him, especially Gudjohnsen with his goal.

‘Eidur was brilliant and did very well for the goal – he`s obviously been away with his country and scored last which is a great story, plus he`s had a baby this week too. He only joined back up with the squad late yesterday so it would have been difficult to start him, whereas with Emile we have to be careful with the fact that we`ve got two games in two days. They`ve been fantastic and they`ve been a massive influence on everybody in the squad – they`ve been two very important signings for us.’

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