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‘How the hell’ – Steve Bruce reacts to Blackpool’s missed chances in defeat to Leyton Orient

‘How the hell’ – Steve Bruce reacts to Blackpool’s missed chances in defeat to Leyton Orient as footage goes viral online.

@themightypooI posted a video of one chance in the 36th minute which has gone on to get over a million views and 6,000 likes within less than 12 hours.

He uploaded more, making it into a thread of posts, and having watched it, you can completely see why Steve Bruce said he’s never seen a game like it before…

Blackpool boss Steve Bruce said, per Blackpool Gazette: “Those that witnessed it today will say ‘how the hell have we not won that.’

“Taking the chances is the most important part, and they were hideous chances that we’ve missed – it’s cost us.

“We gave a poor goal away with the second one, where we’ve got caught up in the emotion of scoring. That’s my biggest frustration of the lot. We killed ourselves with a poor goal where they didn’t have to do much to score it.

“Overall, to a man, they were terrific, we’ve just not taken our chances, which is the crucial area of football and makes it the great game it is. That’s the frustration we all feel tonight because to man they were magnificent.

“It wasn’t just half chances. We’ve had 22 shots on goal, and Fletcher’s doesn’t reflect that because he didn’t hit the target. It was a total domination, but when you’re like that, you’ve got to score.

“Olly Casey had a big chance with a header, but he didn’t make any contact. After that, it’s chance after chance. It’s one of those awful days which you don’t deserve.

“There’s no doubt we carry a threat to teams with the way we play, but maybe now we’re a bit open because not many play with two wide players and two centre forwards like we do.

“In any other game, we would’ve won it twice over, and that’s the disappointing thing. There’s nothing I can criticise. Nobody wants to miss chances. They should be stick on goals, but it hasn’t happened.

“I’ve never been involved in a game where there’s that many to that level, you only get two of them every six games. I can think of six or seven where surely we’ve got to score.”

Orient boss Richie Wellens said: “It was an important win, obviously, but we’d played really well in some of the games in this five-game run, and we’ve got away with one today.

“Tactically, I didn’t enjoy it one little bit. There were too many off it, and too many chances given away from transition. I think Blackpool are one of the best teams in the league in transition and we didn’t have enough people getting to the ball.

“Our decision making was all right, but we were passing in front of them, and not really hurting them. We’re trying to play football to penetrate teams and it was too easy to defend against in the first 20 minutes.

“The work rate was there. We worked so hard but we didn’t work smart today at all. We showed a great resilience and we responded to the equaliser but we got away with it, they should have won the game.

“I thought (goalkeeper) Josh Keeley was our best player. And I’m pleased for him, when you’re a young goalkeeper and you’re starting out in your career, his first full season in league football, maybe I’d have taken him out if I’d had an experienced goalkeeper fit and ready to play, but we’ve not had that luxury. I thought he was outstanding, though. Josh and Charlie Kelman were the two reasons why we got three points today.”

The result leaves Orient sitting 9th with 56 points from 37 games played and 5 points from the League One playoff places, and Blackpool are 11th with 51 points and 10 points from the playoff places.

Twitter users gave their thoughts as Steve Bruce reacts to Blackpool’s missed chances in defeat to Leyton Orient…

@sodbodd: Both teams need to be sacked for that

@Daniel2234B: Thought the video was about the goal keeping till I realised he missed

@LOFCKai: josh keeley aura saved it

@KyleChr27168364: Wait. He missed??

@Raedwald1999: How the fuck do you miss an open goal lmao.

@T4YZO: …and they slag Scottish Football FFS 😆

@FAGG0TKISSER: how can anyone watch men’s football? they make so many mistakes. they need to make the goals smaller.

@patrick1flood: Miss of the day. Orient could not believe their luck!

@Matty_B44: League 1 for ya 🤣

@ChrisButSports: This thread is insanity

@DeadlyMonkfish: I’ve seen this video all over my timeline and only now realised that Blackpool didn’t score. Orientear vs Orientear stuff.

@Jack_Nattress: How to sum up League One in 10 seconds:

@curtiskilcullen: How on earth has he missed 😂😂😂😂

@OrientMeatPie: Was even more staggered watching it live. About time we had a bit of luck + Keeley masterclass

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