Hurst’s anger at failure to score

SCUNTHORPE manager Paul Hurst admitted to feeling angry as his side’s poor start to the League Two campaign continued at the Moss Rose on Saturday.

Relegated last season, the Iron were widely tipped to be among the frontrunners for promotion under the guidance of former Shrewsbury boss Hurst.

However, the weekend’s defeat left them bottom of the table with just one point from their opening five games of the campaign.

“My initial thought is anger, because I don’t think you get too many better chances to win a game of football,” said Hust after the game at Macc.

“We need that ruthless streak about us and I still don’t think we really did enough or recognised that it (the opportunity) was there.

“In the end, because of that, if you don’t score you leave yourselves open.

“They won the penalty and got the all-important goal.

“I don’t think we warranted losing the game, but we have – particularly as we didn’t score a goal in that first period when we were well on top.

“It was 20 attempts at goal today and to not get any return from that is extremely disappointing.

“We couldn’t even get a goal to at least take something from the game.

“We should have won that match, there’s no doubt about that, but the record books and table doesn’t look at how you lose the game, and should have scored, it reflects the result and another one that wasn’t in our favour.

“There were instances where we put some great balls in and didn’t even register an attempt at goal – particularly a ball in from Regan (Slater) where the ball drifted out to the back post and it looked like a tap in.”