Parkinson - We got beat by a better team

A game is always going to be tough when you concede inside the opening minute, as Bradford did at Rotherham on Saturday afternoon.

That goal set The Millers on the road to a 4-0 win with Phil Parkinson admitting his side "got beat by a better team": 'We conceded a goal straight away and that was a fantastic start for them.

'But I thought we got beat by a better team. We were too open in our shape and in the two cup games we have been tight as a team, but in this game we were too open and too many players wanted to do their own thing.'

What you can't afford to do is "lose you discipline" and that's what The Bantams did and duly got punished for this!

The Bradford boss thought his side looked, and did, "okay" at certain stages but knows a four-nil defeat isn't good enough: 'We lost our discipline and got punished. It was a great strike from O'Connor and we have to give him credit for that, but between the first and second goals I thought we did okay, but we always looked vulnerable and we cannot be like that. We have got to be tight.

'For the majority of the second half we did okay and that is why the fourth goal was such a disappointment and 4-0 is a very poor scoreline.'

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