BRENTWOOD TOWN manager Les Whitton has told his side to cut out the "silly mistakes".
The Blues twice let a lead slip in the FA Cup on Saturday when they hosted FC Clacton, meaning that they were forced to do it all again on Tuesday night.
It was a hat-trick from Aaron Condon which earned the Essex Senior League side their replay, but Whitton admitted that his side should have won the game.
"That's football I suppose – it's what happens sometimes, especially in the FA Cup, anything can happen," he said. "It was unnecessary as well, we could have been four or five up in the first half, we completely controlled the game, went two up, then created other chances and didn't take them and they punished us in the end.
"It was silly mistakes. It's unnecessary and the goals we're giving away are just mistakes.
"We've brought keepers in and they've made mistakes, the keeper made a bad mistake on Saturday, he came out, missed the ball, it hit the fella on the arm and went in. Then we gave a silly penalty away, pulling someone back in the box when we should have been doing our job properly and it was 2-2.
"And then we get in front again, and slack marking in the box gave them one with more or less the last kick of the game.
"I think they're just individual errors. As a team we're not doing too bad, we're playing some good football and we're not getting outplayed by anybody, even the teams at the top of our league haven't outplayed us.
"We've always been in every game and it's just mistakes that are hurting us and the quicker we get rid of them silly mistakes, we'll start winning games."
The Blues have recorded just a solitary league win so far, and their goals against tally of 23 is the joint second worst in the division.
Factor in the five goals conceded in their two FA Cup ties so far, and Whitton's men have shipped 28 in ten games this season.
But he insists that he doesn't want to change the way his side play in order to become tighter at the back.
He added: "We scored three goals again, two the game before and we still haven't won the games.
"It's frustrating, but while we're scoring goals, if we can cut out the defensive frailties then we'll be ok.
"It is good to watch, the boys are enjoying it, the supporters are enjoying it. I don't enjoy it but that's what football is.
"We like to go forward, we like to push on and maybe we need to shut those gaps a bit more and perhaps concentrate defensively rather than going forward.
"But I don't want to do that really, I want to play football the way it should be played, pushing on and creating chances because people want to see that, but I want us to make sure that we don't keep conceding silly goals.
"They're not well-worked goals against us, penalties and slack marking and keepers coming out when they shouldn't."
