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Swindon Town goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux calls Chesterfield defeat "a sickener"
Lawrence Vigouroux felt sick in the aftermath of Swindon's 1-0 defeat against Chesterfield on Saturday.
The England-born Chilean was unfairly on the losing side at the weekend, as the ex-Liverpool stopper only faced on shot on goal throughout the entire 90 minutes, and it went in, leaving him stranded with no chance of keeping it out.
Vigouroux has often been the saving grace for Swindon this season in games where the Robins have been dominated but the keeper, who looks a shoo-in for the club's player-of-the-season award, could do nothing with Reece Mitchell's first professional goal that flew past Vigouroux in second-half stoppage time.
He was clearly gutted with the loss, which kept Swindon in the bottom four of League One with 10 games of the season to go, and labelled the late goal as "a sickener."
“Their goal was just a cross into the box, somebody got a flick on it and, to be fair to him, it is a great finish so you’ve got to give him credit for that," the 23-year-old said.
“I would have been disappointed if we would have drawn that game, but we’ve just got to take the bad with the good and the teams around us didn’t get a win, so we’re still in it.
“We’ve just got to go again next weekend. It will be a tough game, they’ve (Port Vale) got a massive pitch and it will be cold up there probably but if we go there and perform like we did on Saturday then we’ll win more games than we lose.
“We shouldn’t be looking at that though and we should be looking at what we did, we had many chances and we deserved more than a defeat and we should have got at least a draw.
“We showed in long spells that we dominated the game, we controlled it and they would have been happy with a point the way they set up, so anything else would have been a bonus and they got it.
“But we’ve just got to dust ourselves off and go again.
“We’ve got ten games left so there is no point or no use in us getting upset about it. It hurts now but when we come back into training we’ve got to give ourselves the best opportunity for Port Vale next Saturday and that’s the most important thing.
“We won two games on the bounce for the first time this season and we all felt good coming into the game, we performed really well but sometimes you just don’t get the rub of the green and we’re disappointed not to have even got a point.
“We deserved all three but they got their chance and they took it."
Despite Swindon's perilous-looking position, Vigouroux and his colleagues will not be looking at the league standings anytime soon.
“I don’t think we should look at the table - we should just worry about ourselves.
“We’ve got to win a specific amount of games to get ourselves out of it and the more we look at the table then the more we worry about what could happen, so for us the most important thing is to just win games.
“We can’t worry about the league table, we’ve just got to get the amount of points that will get us out of the bottom four and I think we’ll do that.”
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