Omer Riza spoke to the press after Cardiff City’s 1-1 draw at home against Watford.
“It’s frustrating, and I’m frustrated for the players more than anything,” Omer began. “They worked really hard again, I thought we deserved three points, but if you don’t do enough, you give teams the opportunity to get back into games.
“If you don’t score from the chances you create, you give the opposition a chance to get a goal, and we need to control the game a little bit more when we’re in front.
“There are always things for us to work on. We had enough in the game today to keep the ball, play it out, and make the opposition work. Our builds in general are good, but we didn’t do it enough today.
“We need to make the opposition work a little bit harder to frustrate them, to tire them in order to make them work a little harder at the end. You need to kill their energy, to kill their momentum, and we’re not quite doing that at the moment. They’re the things that are frustrating, but it was a good performance, and we have to take that into Saturday.
Cian Ashford made it two goals in two games for City with a well taken strike midway through the second half.
Omer continued: “It’s taken him some time to get to this point. He is a quiet lad; a humble boy who works hard and sometimes lets things get on top of him. We’ve spoken a lot about that, and it’s really important for us as staff to recognise when players are in those moments in order to help them. For Cian, the right time for him is now, and he’s been excellent for us.”
Omer ended by looking ahead to Saturday’s South Wales derby.
“We will be going into Saturday full of confidence,” he concluded. “We’re unbeaten in five games, and some of those games we should have won, the players know that. It’ll be the same approach. It’ll be work rate, endeavour, togetherness.
“We need composure at times, and that will be the next step for us now as a team. We need to show that a little more and recognise when we can do that and really kill a team. We’re talking about it, it’s happening sporadically, but it needs to happen more. It’s a massive game Saturday, and the boys will be well up for it.”