\n Deje Elerewe headed the hosts in front at a corner just before half-time, but substitute Ben Johnson netted a rebound finish to get the game level after the break.\n<\/p>\n
\n George Hirst and Ali Al-Hamadi subsequently saw penalties saved in the shootout as the Blues found themselves on the end of yet another cup upset.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We didn’t do enough first half to force the first goal and then they score from a set-piece, which we couldn’t afford to concede.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Second half we created plenty and but for a couple of near misses and a couple of good blocks we’d be talking about a good comeback win. There was a big, big chance in the 94th minute (that Ali Al-Hamadi missed).\n<\/p>\n
\n “We weren’t clinical enough, it goes to penalties and we can only congratulate Bromley.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Town started their season by snatching a draw at Birmingham last Friday night, McKenna admitting after that game his side needed to play a lot better if they were to live up to their Championship promotion favourites tag.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking ahead of Sunday lunchtime’s home clash with Southampton, he said: “We’re still working into our rhythm as a team. We’re not quite there yet.\n<\/p>\n
\n “There’s work to do at both ends of the pitch. We are where we are and are not the team we want to be yet. I believe we will be though if we stay on the right track. We’re certainly a work in progress.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deje Elerewe headed the hosts in front at a corner just before half-time, but substitute Ben Johnson netted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115018767069991715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}