Exeter City star has insisted that though his team were able to restrict Birmingham City on Tuesday, the Blues were able to punish them for switching off for “a split second”
Despite fending off the League One giants until the 77th minute, the Grecians conceded a late goal to lose the EFL Trophy match 2-1 at St James’ Park.
It was the second defeat in the space of two weeks for Purrington and his team against the same opponents, though the 28-year-old thought that they were able to restrict Chris Davies’ team to little in the way of chances.
Purrington told his club’s media, “I thought that we limited them to quite little really.”
The left-back claims that switching off for even a brief moment might be painful against a team like Birmingham City, and that’s exactly what occurred on Tuesday night.
“But that’s what good teams do; they penalize you if you take a moment to switch off after they’ve scored two goals.”
“We truly ought to have scored two goals so that we could have obtained a result.”
However, that is exactly what they did; they are a really strong team, and we can learn a lot from our performance.
With the Blues playing Bristol Rovers on Saturday and Exeter City playing Barnsley on the same day, both teams will now focus on the league.