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00:00Bristol City head coach Liam Manning has said that his side are continuing to believe in themselves
00:05after they scored a late winner against West Bromwich Albion
00:09to see them move up to fifth place in the championship.
00:13Yeah, look, I think the whole place, right, the emotion's extremely high.
00:17And rightly so, I think, you know, we've been on the other end of a few of those this season
00:20where, you know, Sheffield United's one that jumps the mind where we perform terrifically well
00:23and end up losing 2-1.
00:25So, you know, to be on the other side of it tonight, obviously, you get the high
00:28and then, yeah, what an electric atmosphere at the end.
00:31I thought I was really pleased first half.
00:32I thought the bravery we showed to play, but with real purpose, you know,
00:35made good decisions to go through a round.
00:37I thought we caused them some problems and at the same point, I thought up to their goal,
00:42I thought we were excellent and really pleased, really enjoyed watching us again.
00:45And then naturally, you know, you get the error for the goal,
00:49which you then just get a major momentum shift.
00:51It goes from us, you know, kind of being in control to they, we get the massive low,
00:54they get the high and, you know, we then have to ride it out for 20 minutes.
00:56You know, they're an extremely strong side with some well set up and some extremely talented players.
01:01So, you know, we had to dig in a little bit, defend the box, show some character,
01:06which I've spoken a lot around, but you see that in the group.
01:08They keep believing, they keep fighting, they keep giving everything,
01:10which is the bare minimum we expect.
01:12And finally, Bristol Rovers player Sel Swinkles made clear that the loss away at Bolton
01:16was another tough game to endure.
01:19Yeah, difficult one to take.
01:21I think after Tuesday, it was a performance we could build on and we were confident going here,
01:27even though, you know, the last couple of games haven't been going our way.
01:31And then to go into halftime, you know, nil-nil,
01:35before at halftime we were in the game and just keep doing what we're doing.
01:39And one moment just kills us again.
01:41And it's tough because I think as a team we do the right things,
01:47but it's not enough at this level.
01:49And against these teams, doing well in the league,
01:53fighting effort for players for promotion or blues,
01:56like maybe being top of the league,
01:59it's about small margins and the last couple of percentages.
02:03And we can't afford us to drop off in these sort of games.
02:08And we've just got to stay focused for 95, 96, 97 minutes.
02:12And let's just kill this again.