DIFFICULT FOR POTTERS BOSS

FROM BACK PAGE difficult times. We have to put shoulders back and chins out.

“We will address that and turn it around. That is my make up, as a manager and player. We didn’t deserve to lose but that is the way it is panning out.

“Their keeper made some great saves, and a draw would have been a fairer result. We have to take it on the chin.”

Hughes admitted resting senior players for the defeat at Chelsea, to boost the side’s chances for this clash, did not work.

But he said: “Everyone has made changes. I did it for right reasons. I did it to maximise us today but it didn’t work out.

“Eight internationals were involved in that game.”