String of away video games ‘caught up’ with Plymouth – Tom Cleverley

Plymouth Argyle head coach Tom Cleverley says his aspect’s busy schedule caught up with them as they misplaced 1-0 at Rotherham United.

The defeat on the Millers ended a run of 5 video games in 14 days – 4 of which had been away from Home Park.

Argyle have needed to journey to Blackpool, Leyton Orient, Luton Town and Rotherham in that fortnight – return journeys totalling nearly 1,750 miles for the squad.

They now have every week to arrange for the go to of Doncaster Rovers on 7 March.

“I wouldn’t say I’m angry because I’ve got a group of players that are giving everything and a few of them have probably needed rotating,” Cleverley informed BBC Radio Devon.

“The two weeks of four away games and five games in total just looked like it caught up with us today.”

The loss left Argyle in twelfth place in League One, six factors off the play-off locations with 12 video games to play.

Cleverley says he was annoyed that his aspect weren’t capable of provide you with a aim in opposition to relegation threatened Rotherham, who took what proved to be a decisive seventh-minute lead via Joe Rafferty.

“It’s a phase of the game that we’ve struggled a little bit when we’re chasing games and we have more of the ball and we’re ringing their box,” Cleverley added.

“Having that quality to make sure that we break defences down and we need to try and crack that one.

“But immediately we’re actually dissatisfied as a result of if we got here right here and received then we actually are within the dialog, and we simply cannot take that subsequent step to ensure that we’re firmly in that dialog.”