Carlos Carvalhal has admitted that he was to blame for Sheffield Wednesday’s 1-0 draw against Yorkshire rivals Leeds United.
“We didn’t come here to try to protect our goal and achieve on the counter attack,” the Portuguese is quoted as saying by the Sheffield Star. “We tried to play our football and I think we did well.”
“Keiren Westwood didn’t have much to do and one mistake that we did, Leeds scored the goal. After this there were positives, we tried and tried, achieved a penalty and had a few chances before that but we missed the penalty.
“That we didn’t win wasn’t because we didn’t try, because we didn’t fight or create chances, it was circumstances in the game. We missed a penalty, that is a part of the game. We win together and lose together and the responsibility is mine.”
Red-hot Whites striker Chris Wood scored the only goal of the game, who took advantage of a defensive blunder from Vincent Sasso to earn a win for his side.
Wednesday had a good chance to equalize in the second half when they earned a penalty, however Robert Green saved from Jordan Rhodes resulting spot-kick.
For Leeds the win takes them to fourth place on the Championship standings and nine point adrift of Newcastle, who occupy second position as well as the second automatic promotion spot.
Through Wednesday remain promotion contenders, the gap between them and Fulham who occupy the final promotion playoff position is now just five points.
