Mark Kennedy said that Swindon Town must stop handing teams wins against them following their 2-1 defeat at Salford City.

Kelly N’Mai’s early strike was cancelled out by Harry Smith’s second goal in as many matches as he clinically tucked home but substitute Jon Taylor then volleyed home the winner.

After the game, Kennedy said that in almost every game that Swindon have lost this season, the opposition manager would come away from it feeling fortunate with how the game went.

He said: “I think in the first half we were poor, they dominated us physically and deserved their lead at half time, even though there was a real moment in the goal that we can be better at.

“We had a conversation at halftime around some really simplistic things and we answered that in the second half and had good moments but unfortunately we found a way to lose the game.

“Our decision-making this season just leaves me scratching my head a little bit and the games we have lost, with the exception of Walsall, I don’t feel that anybody has come and beat us.

“In the games we have lost, when I look at Darren [Moore] at Port Vale, Grant [McCann] on Saturday, and Karl [Robinson] tonight and think about what they would think the following day us and what they did to beat us, I keep coming up with the same answer – ‘We were really lucky there, they didn’t half help us.’

“That is something we have to change quickly.”

Kennedy was asked why he felt the team had not been able to pick up more points despite his being pleased with the squad which had been assembled.

He said: “It is black and white, we are handing teams wins, Carlisle was two set pieces, Port Vale the first goal was a set piece, and the second goal tonight you need to clear your lines but we try and take someone on in our own box.

“That is really tough for me to take as a head coach, Notts County is slightly different as it was two outstanding pieces of magic from David McGoldrick and Walsall is the one where you have to take it on the chin as we were particularly poor.

“In all the other games we lost, every manager will wake up and think they got away with one.

“That is difficult for me to handle as a head coach but it is real and it is alive.”