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November 2011 Moyes unhappy with way in which his side fell behind.



David Moyes bemoaned his side’s poor defending after they slipped to a 2-1 defeat to in-form Newcastle United on Saturday.

The Blues fell behind following John Heitinga’s 11th minute own goal and were left with a mountain to climb when Ryan Taylor rattled in a superb long-range second on the half hour.

Jack Rodwell headed home Royston Drenthe’s corner to reduce arrears on the stroke of half-time but the visitors were unable to build any momentum after the break.

And Moyes said: “We knew coming here that we were going to have a hard game. They are on a good run and we knew they were going to start fast and we obliged them.

“I think you make your own luck and we did not do that with our defending in the first half.”

At 2-1 down the Blues could have had a penalty when Louis Saha’s goal-bound shot struck Dan Gosling’s arm and skewed away to safety.

“That was a penalty,” said Moyes.” It was going in the net, the shot was going in. At the time I did not quite realise it had hit his arm but it did and the goalkeeper wasn’t getting it.

“That was maybe 10 minutes into the second half and that would have made it 2-2.”

The nature in which the Blues found themselves 2-0 down was of particular frustration to Moyes given that his side had created several opportunities of their own early on.

“We were 2-0 down and you could look at it and say we had created the better chances,” he added. “But as I said you make your own luck and we did not do that with the way we defended.”