Lambert rues lax defending by Us

Franck Moussa's strike proved enough to give the Shrimpers victory at the Weston Homes Community Stadium.They have also now gone three matches without scoring and their hopes of making this season's play-offs are slowly fading.Lambert said: "Southend took their only chance and it was a good finish. But we were asleep for some strange reason and it wasn't offside."Pat Baldwin had a chance where he should have scored, Kem Izzet had an opportunity with a header and Mark Yeates had one saved by the keeper."We had a lot of the ball but Southend defended strongly and tried to hit us on the counter-attack which is their prerogative, but we were slow to react."

Source: Team_Talk