Derby County Head Coach Paul Warne says his team 'need to be better' following the 2-1 home defeat to Charlton Athletic on Tuesday night.
The Rams led through a goal from Eiran Cashin in the first half, but the visitors turned it around with two goals in the second half through Alfie May's penalty and Karoy Anderson to claim all three points in Sky Bet League One.
Speaking to RamsTV after the match, a disappointed Warne gave his verdict on the performance.
On the result...
Charlton had a way of playing, they were trying to get in behind us all the time and trying to get on the end of second balls. I thought we dealt with that pretty well in the first half. I was pretty pleased with the opening 45 minutes, however we didn't start the second half well. It's like we can't do back-to-back halves, for some reason. I thought they came at us, we nearly conceded from a set-piece and then to give away a penalty is a big error. We can't afford to give teams help. There has been a bit of a theme at home, whenever we make a mistake we get punished. They capitalised on a sideways pass and we nearly got out of trouble but didn't and they scored again. After that, it was all us but it was just huff and puff really. There was no cutting-edge. It was a game we wanted to win but my honest assessment is, when they put it on us a little bit, we didn't stand up to them.
On if he's worried about the mentality...
We've lost an absolute shed load of points at home and we could be looking handsome, but we're not. There have been a few games where I've been beyond frustrated because we make crazy decisions. We lost a bit of a battle in the middle of the park and all of a sudden we didn't look as fresh. Ryan Nyambe came off and that had an impact although I thought our two centre-backs were excellent and as was Eiran Cashin playing out of position at left-back. I just thought we didn't have enough of a physical part of our game to match Charlton's intensity. That is how I feel. We got done with two bits of play from ourselves and Charlton took advantage of that. We should be good enough as group to see out a result when we go ahead. With six home games left, and five away, we need to be much better at home and much braver when things get difficult.
On players not taking risks...
I thought in the first half we moved the ball really well and got ourselves into really good areas. I didn't feel like there was much aggressive attacking play in the second half. We looked gassed out and that is something we are going to have to address for this weekend and if not, the same thing is going to happen. We need to be better, it's as simple as that.
