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Phil Parkinson says Wanderers will have to take criticism for a home defeat against Birmingham City squarely on the chin – but insists is won’t wreck the club’s survival bid.
Lukas Jutkiewicz’s strike just before half time was enough to give the Blues a third successive win in the Championship, which brings them level on points with Bolton, just above the bottom three.
They did it the hard way, having lost striker Che Adams midway through the second half for a straight red card, issued for a bad foul on Craig Noone.
“You have to be patient against 10 men,” Parkinson said after the game. “We couldn’t find the creative spark to get us ahead in the game or back in it.
“There are six games to go – we have to take the criticism at having been beaten at home firmly on the chin, and we will do. But we need to come out fighting in this last run of fixtures.”
Wanderers had two penalty appeals for handballs against Michael Morrison and Wes Harding turned down in the second half by referee Oliver Langford.
Parkinson had not seen the incidents when he spoke to the press immediately after the final whistle, adding: “When 10,000 fans jump up at that end of the ground so vociferously it says something,” he said. “From where we were it looked like a penalty.
“Birmingham got one on Saturday against Ipswich which was never a penalty and then a decision like that goes against us. It’s tight – but we didn’t get it.”
He later admitted the first incident – as Will Buckley’s cross was handled by Harding – was “a clear penalty.”
But the decisions could not mask over what was a desperately poor Bolton performance in just about every aspect.
Karl Henry was brought off in the second half as a precautionary measure, having missed the last couple of games with a hamstring injury. His replacement, Jan Kirchhoff, pulled up with a similar problem just five minutes after entering the field of play.
Parkinson added: “We’re disappointed because we conceded from a set play.
“It was always going to be a tight game. They are a big, strong, powerful team and they made it very difficult. It was going to be separated on detail and the set play goal conceded was hugely disappointing.
“We had some good moments in the first half. They went down to 10 men and we had a period where we moved the ball really well.
“Jan came on and pulled his hamstring and that’s when we started to become more disjointed in the last 15 minutes of the game.
“We’re hitting aimless diagonals without anyone getting on to them. Prior to that we were moving the ball quickly.”
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Lukas Jutkiewicz’s strike just before half time was enough to give the Blues a third successive win in the Championship, which brings them level on points with Bolton, just above the bottom three.
They did it the hard way, having lost striker Che Adams midway through the second half for a straight red card, issued for a bad foul on Craig Noone.
“You have to be patient against 10 men,” Parkinson said after the game. “We couldn’t find the creative spark to get us ahead in the game or back in it.
“There are six games to go – we have to take the criticism at having been beaten at home firmly on the chin, and we will do. But we need to come out fighting in this last run of fixtures.”
Wanderers had two penalty appeals for handballs against Michael Morrison and Wes Harding turned down in the second half by referee Oliver Langford.
Parkinson had not seen the incidents when he spoke to the press immediately after the final whistle, adding: “When 10,000 fans jump up at that end of the ground so vociferously it says something,” he said. “From where we were it looked like a penalty.
“Birmingham got one on Saturday against Ipswich which was never a penalty and then a decision like that goes against us. It’s tight – but we didn’t get it.”
He later admitted the first incident – as Will Buckley’s cross was handled by Harding – was “a clear penalty.”
But the decisions could not mask over what was a desperately poor Bolton performance in just about every aspect.
Karl Henry was brought off in the second half as a precautionary measure, having missed the last couple of games with a hamstring injury. His replacement, Jan Kirchhoff, pulled up with a similar problem just five minutes after entering the field of play.
Parkinson added: “We’re disappointed because we conceded from a set play.
“It was always going to be a tight game. They are a big, strong, powerful team and they made it very difficult. It was going to be separated on detail and the set play goal conceded was hugely disappointing.
“We had some good moments in the first half. They went down to 10 men and we had a period where we moved the ball really well.
“Jan came on and pulled his hamstring and that’s when we started to become more disjointed in the last 15 minutes of the game.
“We’re hitting aimless diagonals without anyone getting on to them. Prior to that we were moving the ball quickly.”
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