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Laurent Frayssinous, the Dragons coach, accepted his team were second best but was unhappy with the relaid, heavily sanded pitch.
Pellegrini might have had reason to complain about the dismissal of Fernandinho as well as two rejected late Sergio Aguero penalty appeals, but he accepted his team had again failed to deliver.
Manchester United's new manager admitted after his side's goalless draw that two points from a possible nine was not good enough and, though a member of Holland's World Cup squad should be a useful acquisition following the signings of Marcos Rojo and Ángel di María of Argentina, Van Gaal accepted his team looked anything but world class at the moment.
Barrichello, frustrated, reluctantly accepted his team's orders.
As a creature of the system, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin said that he accepted his team's fate.
Deschamps accepted his team's performance was far from perfect and it was curious to see how peripheral Paul Pogba was.
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Klopp accepts his team are exposed to an FA Cup upset against a side 16th in League Two.
Ospreys' head coach, Steve Tandy, accepts his team's European Champions Cup ambitions are on the line against high-flying Northampton on Sunday.
Sherwood accepts his team's work on the role of clouds cannot definitively rule out that future temperature rises will lie at the lower end of projections.
"They were very good in every facet and we couldn't cope with it," conceded Cockerill, accepting his team's Heineken Cup challenge is already over.
Liverpool are eighth in the Premier League, nine points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City, and Klopp accepts his team may have to triumph at St Jakob-Park on 18 May to rejoin the European elite next season.
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