Oran Kearney pulled no punches as he let his Coleraine team know their defending for the two goals they conceded at Glenavon Saturday was "not good enough".
The Bannsiders, who haven't recorded a victory at Mourneview Park in three-and-a-half years, were gifted a first half lead after Rory Brown slipped and offered up possession to Andy Scott, who raced away and stuck the ball into an empty net
The keeper redeemed himself with excellent saves to deny Conor McKendry and Eamon Fyfe, before Sean Ward blocked Matthew Shevlin's goal-bound effort.
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Those interventions proved vital as Matthew Fitzpatrick bagged another goal against his former employers before Michale O'Connor came off the bench to grab the winner much to Kearney's frustration.
“It’s very frustrating.
“Coming here today, you had an understanding that it’s not going to be free flowing with the conditions, the day that it was and the rain fall in the morning, and everything else.
“You just expect us to get a reaction and to be fair we got that in the first-half.
“We huffed and puffed at stages but we didn’t give much away at one end, whilst creating a lot at the other.
“The second half started the same and we were quite wasteful with a few opportunities to go and kill it off.
“They used the breeze well by putting the ball into the box and asking questions of you.
“As we said at half-time, it was about standing up and being counted, as well as doing your jobs.
“For the jobs that we did in the first-half, there wasn’t enough jobs carried out and executed in the second half.
“The manner of the two goals we conceded; we were in possession and how we give the ball away and proceed to defend is just not good enough and it needs to improve."
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