David Artell fumed at the performance of the match official in the Mariners’ 3-1 defeat on Good Friday
“We didn’t help ourselves in the first half in any way, shape, or form because we gave them two goals,” he said on BBC Radio Humberside. You’re in for a long afternoon if you gift a squad like them two goals ahead of schedule.
We are competitive to some extent because this is a challenging place to be. When you look at the performance, you cannot take away goals that change games. We had additional opportunities to score in the second half.
“We were okay in some aspects, but we weren’t so good in others, and that’s why we ended up losing the game,” the Grimsby manager continued. I thought Justin Obikwu was fantastic; even though he was kicked from one end of the pitch to the other, he ran the entire game and earned his goal.
We could have won the game, let alone drawn it, if everyone had played to their potential today, but we didn’t. We don’t act brutally in one situation, and We need to improve because we now don’t keep them out of the other.