Reid blasts poor defence

09 October 2010 19:30
Plymouth boss Peter Reid was critical of his side's defending as they threw away a late lead to draw 2-2 with Charlton. Paul Benson hit his second and third goals of the season for Charlton, first cancelling out Bradley Wright-Phillips' fourth-minute opener for Plymouth and then denying the home side in the closing stages after Argyle's Yannick Bolasie appeared to have won it with a 25-yard strike in the 81st minute. Reid said: "The first half we started really well, got the goal and then I thought their keeper made a couple of really good saves. "(Steve) MacLean had one saved, but I thought we were doing okay, but then their keeper has put the ball down the centre of the field and it was very poor defending. "You will always analyse goals and say `what went wrong?' Phil Parkinson might say they didn't defend the long throw they knew was coming in, but a big kick dink down the middle and the ball bounces in our box and it's a goal? "It was poor defending. You cannot afford to defend like that and we work on things like that and we let ourselves down."

Source: PA