A 1-1 draw obviously wasn’t the result we wanted.
There’s no excuses because of the travel. It was a disappointing result and it was disappointing to concede late in the game.
But we always felt this group was going to go down to the wire and we are still in the same position, with everything to play for in the last game, so we have to focus on that.
Credit to Montenegro, they were really solid and hard to break down.
We have been that team in the past – sitting deep and trying to stop our opponents.
Now we have a bit more strength and depth in our squad and we are the ones trying to break teams down.
We find that difficult at times. We knew Montenegro away would be tough – we found the same in Albania, where we did well to grind out a victory.
We had a meeting on Saturday, analysed the Montenegro game, and picked out certain parts where we can improve for Tuesday.
Now we are looking forward to taking on the Czech Republic.
We are playing in Cardiff where we enjoy the big pitch – that suits us.
We have the quality and the athleticism to play on big pitches and we always tend to perform at home in front of the Welsh crowd.
I just think being back in our home surroundings, back in the Vale with the facilities we have, all our families are here and we have the Red Wall behind us – we enjoy all that.
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