Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray said that there were two many under performers during his side's 2-1 defeat at Walsall.
The City boss told the Coventry Telegraph's Alan Poole: “We’re disappointed, both for the team who have been playing so well and the fans who turned out in huge numbers again – there were too many under-performing from the standards they’ve set themselves.
“Every manager will say they lost poor goals but we really did; the first one we were trying to play offside and let them run through to score; the second we were just about to take Jordan Willis because he was hobbling and they capitalised on a boy who was well off capacity.
“I’m conscious of not trying to make excuses, but we had a few players carrying knocks today and Jordan was one of them. In hindsight, perhaps I should have played Aaron Phillips from the start, but the team has been playinng well and we decided not to change.
“It’s been a tough run of games and it was perhaps a bridge too far for some of them.
"Two or three were toiling at the end when we needed that extra bit of energy to push on and get the equaliser but the good thing is that over the next few weeks we get some good breathers between matches so hopefully they’ll all be ready to fly again."
"Credit to Walsall – they’ve obviously had a great start to the season and they stuck at it very well; they looked like a team with a bit of purpose about them and on the balance they probably deserved the result.
“But we’ll all be judged over the 46 matches rather than the first four; we can’t expect to keep winning and the test of any team is how they bounce back from a defeat.”