Swindon Town will be working day and night to fix their defensive woes which see them level on points at the bottom of League Two, according to Ian Holloway.
For the third consecutive game, Swindon have conceded twice from dead ball situations and have only been able to take two points from those matches as they have slipped ever closer to the relegation zone.
17 games into the season, Town have conceded 11 goals from set pieces according to Opta, the second-most in the division ahead of only Morecambe.
When asked what needed to be done to prevent this flood of goals from going in against them, Holloway said that there would be tireless work on the training ground to get it right.
He said: “It looks like we need to do it every night and every day and never have a minute off because that was awful.
“Do I believe they are trying their best? Yes, I do. Do I believe they are listening to what we are saying? Yes, I do and it still isn’t quite good enough.
“We have to look at it because you cannot let goals in like this and be a half-decent team.
“That is our issue, how many goals we are letting in, there is going to have to be an awful lot of work done on the negative side of football.
"We have got to sort these basics out, things like set plays when you have to go and win your header and get the distances right.
“It has been really difficult to dig them out of this hole and if they keep doing that then it will be even more difficult, we have got to turn that on its head. Do I believe they can do that? Yes, I do.”
Having conceded twice from set pieces inside 15 minutes on Saturday, Town then lost the game 12 minutes from the end when Hallam Hope was allowed to run in behind and have a clear shot on goal.
Holloway was equally critical of the defending for the third goal and how Swindon did not react to stop Hope from getting in behind.
He said: “When someone has got the ball out wide and he plays it in behind your backline and their bloke gets on it and scores then what can you say?
“You can see where he is going to play it, so why aren’t we eating that up and playing it back to our goalkeeper?
“If you take that out of it then with the second half I would have been saying that is a good point as we came back from two down, even if I hate the fact we are two down.
“We have got to stop letting goals in; I can’t teach them how to play football until they stop letting goals in.
“We need to start defending a damn sight better than we are as a team, not just as a defence but as a team.
“That is quite simple and that is what I have taken out of today.”
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