You make seven decent saves, save a penalty in extra time, keep a clean sheet and score in a penalty shootout and you still lose. Colin Doyle must be aggrieved.
The Irish goalkeeper performed heroics for Bradford in the League Cup, last night, but still ended up on the losing side.
Signed from Blackpool for £1 (a solitary pound) this summer, Doyle repelled everything Accrington Stanley threw at him and asked for more.
The first round tie was finely poised at 0-0 when Stanley had a player sent off. Bradford went for the kill but could not get the winner, despite a whopping 27 shots on target. They hit the woodwork twice but couldn't beat Aaron Chapman.
So we went to a penalty shootout and an early Stanley miss had Bradford in the next round, if they could only see it out. Nicky Law could have made it 5-3 but missed his spot-kick and Stanley took the game to sudden death.
Doyle and Chapman both stepped up in the final round of penalties and both found the target. Doyle's finish, to the bottom right-hand corner, was cool as you like.
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The shootout had 26 penalties before Jordan Clark scored the winner.
Doyle could well have been forgiven for shrugging off the commiserations of his Bradford teammates as he trudged to the dressing room.
Should have joined a club willing to splash out £2 or £3.
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