Distraught Rosler: "We don’t hang out anybody here" after Trotta miss robs Brentford of automatic promotion

Brentford manager Uwe Rosler was distraught after watching his team miss a golden opportunity to clinch promotion to the Championship.

Brentford had taken the League One game to Doncaster, and their big chance came in the final of five added minutes when referee Michael Oliver awarded a penalty for a foul on midfielder Toumani Diagouraga.

However, Marcello Trotta struck the bar from 12 yards and in one of the most dramatic ends to a season seen at Griffin Park, Doncaster broke to the other end of the pitch where James Coppinger scored the winner that not only consigned Brentford to the play-offs, but also won the League One title for Rovers.

Rosler admitted the 20-year-old Italian on loan from Fulham was not his first choice to take the kick.

He said: “No. What do you want me to say? We don’t hang out anybody here. We need everybody available for next week.

“I think we as a group have to deal with the situation and it’s very important that we take responsibility together.

“The circumstances are very difficult to put in words. Everybody needs a good night’s sleep, a few beers, and tomorrow we go again. We will be alright don’t worry about that.

“I’ve been in football long enough, but to honest I thought we would score the penalty.”

He added: “I felt the first 20 minutes we wanted to play high speed, force them into mistakes and score the goal and after that we would get the ball down, but we never really got into the way we’ve played all season.

“Doncaster made it difficult, but I think that we didn’t have 10 outfield players who wanted the ball, and that is very difficult to establish our normal type of game.

"We looked very erratic and far too direct and that played into their hands.

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“Saying that, I don’t know how many of my players have been in that situation before.”

Brentford now face Swindon Town in the play offs, with the first leg next Saturday at the County Ground, and the return leg at Griffin Parl on bank holiday Monday.

Rosler said: “For me now it’s very difficult to have constructive answers, I need a day to pick myself up and I’m sure my players will be ready to go again.

“I’ve not spent any second on Swindon and that will start tomorrow.

“We played today very much with our hearts, maybe not as much with our heads and we will learn out of this experience.

“There’s no guarantee that we will beat Swindon over two legs, but I think we have a good chance. It’s very important that this group of player bounce back, we’ve done it before and can do it again.”