U23s: Dickman demands better

Elliott Dickman was left demanding more from his players after Sunday’s Premier League 2 defeat at home to Liverpool.

Joel Asoro started after featuring on the bench for the first-team at Wolves on Saturday, and levelled the match after Cameron Brannagan had given the visitors the lead on four minutes.

But Rhian Brewster, Matthew Virtue and Ben Woodburn struck in the final 16 minutes to secure all three points and maintain the league leaders' eight points gap on Arsenal.

“I was really pleased up until the second goal and then disappointed,” Dickman said speaking to safc.com.

“I thought we played some good stuff as well, created some half chances but against players of the calibre of Brewster, Woodburn and Wilson who are quite lively players, you give them a chance and they are going to take it.

“We did restrict them to very little until that point, but the disappointment is after that.

“We are disappointed to allow what happened in the final 12-minute period,” he continued.

“It has happened too many times and the players need to respond better to a mistake or going behind.”

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