Johnnie Jackson felt Gethin Jones should have been shown a red card as he bemoaned the goals Bolton Wanderers scored as 'really poor' from Charlton Athletic's perspective.
23.01.2022 - 12:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Shrewsbury Town boss Steve Cotterill believes his side were the better team in his side's loss to Bolton Wanderers and felt the winning goal came from a scuffed cross but took nothing away from the quality of what separated the two teams.
Wanderers made it two wins on the bounce in League One with a late victory on the road at Montgomery Waters Meadow.
The victory came courtesy of a brilliant late strike by Dion Charles who scored his first Bolton goal after being teed up on the edge of the box by substitute Dapo Afolayan.
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Following a tight encounter, Cotterill felt his side were the better one in the clash in Shropshire.
And though he took nothing away from the finish produced by Charles, he felt Wanderers took the lead from a scuffed cross which he felt was 'totally undeserved' for Salop.
He told the Shropshire Star: "It's always difficult to take encouragement from defeat. I don't take defeat too well, it's always a difficult one to come out to you and then put on a face I don't want to put on because I feel down for the players, for the amount of effort they put in.
"Because no matter what, we've put enough effort into that game to win it. On another day I suppose we'll be the ones to score late in a game, you can't always take your chances, and today we haven't but we've certainly created enough.
"It was a scuffed cross that ended up getting into him (Charles), we'd have been better with him crossing it properly, but it was a scuffed cross, but take nothing away from the finish, it was fantastic, but totally undeserved from our boys.
"It's always tough to take when you are the better team.
"Good, (we were)
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