Head coach Marco Silva has said Hull City can consider themselves very unfortunate to have not taken at least a point from the game against Arsenal on Saturday.
Clearly the statistics from the game show that our hosts at the Emirates Stadium had more chances on and off target but with their opening goal from Alexis Sanchez on another day very easily ruled out for handball, and the fact we went down to ten men when Arsenal should’ve had their number reduced far earlier in the game, Silva felt there were positives we could take from the game.
Speaking to the Official Site in his post game press conference Silva felt that two nil in particular was very harsh given the performance we put in on the day.
‘2-0 isn`t the story of the game. Sure, we didn`t start well in the first half and we were losing the ball in some important zones but after this we started to have better control in the game. Arsenal scored the first goal with handball and the referee apologised to my players at the start of the second half but it is not good for us. But we make mistakes and sometimes referees do the same.’
Silva went on to say.
‘It was a very good second half for our team and we controlled the second half. Arsenal caused us a couple of problems with counter-attacks, but we had our chances to score and to change the result. We didn`t have a good day because our final decisions with those chances weren`t good. I don`t want to talk only about the referee, but it is true that Arsenal should have maybe only had ten men. Markovic had the chance to go one-on-one with the goalkeeper. It is another important decision in the game.’
But with plenty of positives to take, he went on to say.
‘I saw some positive things in the game. I didn`t like the way we started but we reacted and I am happy that the team showed good things again. We caused Arsenal plenty of problems and I want the team to continue with the progress we are making. We have time before our next game – time to rest and time to work on things for the next game.’
