Portadown boss Niall Currie said that their 4-1 defeat against Bangor at Shamrock Park on Friday night was the “lowest performance” of his second spell in charge of the club.
Ben Cushnie’s strike put the hosts ahead before Eamon Fyfe levelled for the Ports.
It went downhill from there however, as Reece Neale’s free-kick restored Bangor’s with Liam Hassin and Mark Haughey giving the away side a comfortable victory.
Currie lamented the nature of the goals they conceded, the second successive game in which Ports have shipped four goals following a 4-1 defeat against Coleraine last weekend.
“You’re not going to win football matches when you’re conceding the kind of goals we conceded. We are conceding far too many soft goals,” he told BBC Sport NI.
“That is as bad as it gets, that is the lowest performance since I returned to the club three years ago, but that is on me, so the only way to get through this is to stay together.”
Portadown are 10th in the table and have picked up just two wins from their first eight league games, but Currie believes they will make it through their current predicament of three straight defeats.
“We know if we get our act together, we can be a decent side. We carried seven or eight players against Bangor, and you can’t do that,” he added.
“We were nowhere near it; they were first and second to every ball and clinical with their chances. When you’re off it in this league you get punished.”
Bangor assistant manager John Douglas said some of their play was “sensational” and some of the goals they scored were “really good” as they picked up their first away win since returning to the top flight.
“Delighted with the performance and hopefully it is the first away win of many. We are getting better week on week with experience.”
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