CM Story - The Story of Josh McEwen

Brighton (4-2-3-1): Verbruggen, Hinshelwood, Coppola, Dunk, De Cuyper, Wieffer, O’Riley, Buonanotte (Off 75), Osman, Rutter, Konate 

Subs: Rushworth, Orozco Chiquete, Gruda, Tzimas, van Hecke, Yalcouye, Welbeck, Mitoma (On 75), Webster 

Wolves (4-3-3): Agirrezabala, Garcia, Goes, Krejci (Off 75), Wolfe, Florentino, Toth (Off 75), Hackney, Esse (Off 75), Arokodare, George (Off 75) 

Subs: Johnstone, Kabore, Mosquera, Agbadou (On 75), Hwang Hee Chan (On 75), Gomes, Ward-Prowse (On 75), Arias (On 75), Larsen 

Q: Fabian tough day at the office, how do you think the game went? 

Fabian Hurzeler “I think if you sit and analyse the game it was a closer game then the scoreline suggests. We had that spell in the first half where we pressed the self destruct button. The plan was to press them and try and force mistakes which is where our goal came from but you have to keep your shape whilst doing that and in that ten minute spell we just left ourselves to open and Wolves punished us for that. It is hard if you press to hard they’ll do what they did to us in that spell, if you don’t press they’ll pass side to side it is hard to find that perfect ground but for a majority of that game I thought we held our own.” 

Q: Josh a good win to bounce back from your loss. Ladoslav Krejci made a horrible mistake for their goal and you subbed him off was that the reason he went off? 

Josh McEwen “Yes it was, we have high standards and he switched off and cost us a goal we had to take action against it. Ladoslav has been superb this season and we won’t slaughter him over that mistake but you must know aswell that this club will net accept that sort of error and for that reason we made the change. We were disappointed to lose last week and I thought the team started superbly in bouncing back and showing the character we wanted from them.” 

Wolves (4-3-3): Agirrezabala, Garcia, Goes, Krejci, Wolfe, Florentino, Ward-Prowse (Off 62), Gomes (Off 62), Esse (Off 62), Arokodare, George (Off 71) 

Subs: Johstone, Kabore, Mosquera, Agbadou, Hwang Hee Chan (On 71), Hackney (On 62), Toth (On 62), Arias (On 62), Larsen

Manchester City (4-3-3): Donnarumma, Lewis, Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol (Off 62), Kimmich, Reijnders (Off 57), Rodri, Foden, Haaland, Doku (Off 54) 

Subs: Trafford, Ait-Nouri (On 62), Silva (On 57), Marmoush (On 54), Stones, Savinho, Mubamba, Kovacic, Ake 

Q: Josh a tough game against Manchester City. Joao Gomes looked very unhappy to be coming off have you spoken to him about his reaction yet?

Josh McEwen “Yeah we’ve had a little conversation but what was said is between us two. I thought it was a very tough contest we rode our luck at times but we also forced their keeper into some top saves obviously at the end when the ball drops to Haaland we were expecting the net to bulge it was a poor and uncharacteristic mistake from Julen (Agirrezabala) but luckily he’s hit the bar and we’ve come away with what I think is a deserved point.” 

Q: Gregorio quite an outstanding game. How have you not won it at the end?

Gregorio Gimenez ”I don’t know to be honest with you it isn’t the sort of chance you expect Haaland not to score but it wasn’t his day today he had a couple of chances that he didn’t get on target. These things happen we came to a tough game and we have a point but in reality we should have three but I know Erling and now we expect a strong reaction from him and I’m sure the next game he will score a goal or two and this miss will be forgotten about.” 

Newcastle United (4-3-3): Pope, Trippier (Off 62), Botman, Simic (Off 63), Hall, Tonali (Off 83), Guimaraes, Joelinton, Elanga (Off 83), Havertz (Off 62), Gordon 

Subs: Ortega, Ullrich (On 83), Murphy (On 83), Wissa (On 62), Burn (On 63), Afif, Woltemade, Barnes, Thiaw (On 62) 

Wolves (4-3-3): Agirrezabala, Garcia, Goes, Krejci, Wolfe, Florentino, Toth (Off 63), Hackney, Arias, Arokodare (Off 24), Hwang Hee Chan (Off 63) 

Subs: Johnstone, Kabore, Mosquera, Agbadou, George (On 63), Doyle, Ward-Prowse (On 63), Esse, Larsen (On 24) 

Q: Eddie a superb win for your team, How pleased are you with that result? 

Eddie Howe “There a tough team but I thought the way we played was outstanding. To limit them to so few chances and dominate the way we did is something no team has done to them this season, the lads put in such a shift and I think we have shown that after a mixed start we are still very much in the hunt for Champions League qualification and now we just have to find this level on a consistent basis.” 

Q: Josh you left Joao Gomes out completely after his reaction to being subbed last week is that a decision you regret now? You then lost Arokodare early to injury is there any update on that? 

Josh McEwen “No I don’t regret it, he will be back in the squad against Fulham and he has apologised to the fans and his team mates its over hes back in the squad next game but he knows his reaction isn’t what we expect. Tolu was a huge miss he has injured his knee the same injury Hayden (Hackney) had at the start of the season so will likely miss a month. I thought we weren’t at our best today we created some huge chances but couldn’t convert them and obviously Newcastle have scored from a set play but their second goal I have to say it was such a well worked goal and the ball by Guimaraes sometimes you just say fair enough that was a world class goal.” 

Fulham 4-2-3-1): Rulli, Tete, Bassey, Andersen, Calafiori, Lukic (Off 90), Berge, Duranville (Off 73), Iwobi, Bellegarde (Off 73), Ayoze (Off 90) 

Subs: Leno, Sessegnon (On 73), Smith Rowe (On 73), Jimenez (On 90), Diop, Bucha (On 90), Harris, King, Castagne 

Wolves (4-3-3): Johnstone, Kabore, Mosquera, Agbadou, Wolfe, Florentino, Ward-Prowse, Gomes, Arias, Larsen, Hwang Hee Chan 

Subs: Agirrezabala, Garcia, Goes, Krejci, George, Doyle, Toth, Esse, Hackney 

Q: Marco out of the Carabao cup now, you seemed to have a lot of possession but were unable to get that crucial goal? 

Marco Silva “We kept the ball well and moved it well at times but in the final third we weren’t good enough. We are disappointed to lose because we wanted a good run in the cup and we thought we had a good chance to progress with a home tie but Wolves were very clinical on the counter in the first half and in the second half they were very defensively sound to make it hard for us to create many chances.” 

Q: Josh with Arokodare out for a month how important was it that Larsen got a goal today to boost his confidence? 

Josh McEwen “Jacob (Larsen) has scored a lot of goals already we are confident in him but obviously with Tolu (Arokodare) out for a month it was important for him to score against a Premier League team and I’m sure it will give him a confidence boost heading into a good run of games for him. The team today with the changes made they performed so well especially in the first half and we are happy that we are still in this competition because it is a chance to win a trophy.” 

Wolves (4-3-3): Agirrezabala, Garcia, Goes, Krejci, Wolfe, Florentino, Toth (Off 57), Doyle (Off 75), Esse (Off 57), Larsen, George (Off 75) 

Subs: Johnstone, Kabore, Mosquera, Agbadou, Hwang Hee Chan (On 75), Gomes (On 75), Ward-Prowse, Arias (On 57), Hackney (On 57) 

Bournemouth (4-2-3-1): Petrovic, Araujo, Diakiti, Bueno, Truffert, Adams, Timber, Semenyo, Tavernier, Kluivert, Evanilson 

Subs: Dennis, Senesi, Faivre, Adli, Milosavljevic, Gonnan-Doak, Kroupi, Brooks, Soler 

Q: Josh not your sides best performance, but do you feel it was an efficient performance? 

Josh McEwen “I don’t think you saw us at our best but we deserved to win the game. Defensively we have been so strong this season and today again we were solid especially in the second half. The first half the game was open both teams had chances but we created more clear cut opportunities obviously Romain (esse) scored a wonderful goal and then Jacob (Larsen) got a crucial goal to give us some breathing space. We didn't hold the ball aswell as we have in other games though that is the only negative I think today but we won and we have a week to rest before our next game.” 

Q: Andoni not the result you wanted but are you pleased with your sides performance? 

Andoni Iraola “I thought we deserved a point at least today, Semenyo had a one on one chance in the first half at 0-0 but Julen (Agirrezabala) is fantastic in these situations we have seen this season already and he made a great save but then obviously they score twice in ten minutes and you have a mountain to climb but we can take some comfort from our performance because we caused them a lot of problems in the first half.”