By Brian Bennett | Photo: Ian Brodie

Ashington joint head coach Andy Coyles said his side suffered from a five minutes ‘head loss’ at the start of the second half as Bishop Auckland turned a one goal deficit into a 2-1 lead which ultimately led to their victory over the Colliers at Woodhorn Lane on Tuesday night.

“We’re extremely disappointed that the game has finished the way it did,” said Coyles afterwards, “I thought we grew into the game and were quite comfortable in the first half. We had really good passages of play and created some real threats in the attacking third and we could have been 2 or 3-1 up. Second half for whatever reason, we just had a five minutes ‘head loss’ where Matty Tymon (scorer of Bishop Auckland’s two goals), has hit a wonder strike from 30 yards out which has been a huge blow to us coming after only 48 seconds and then we’ve really let ourselves down on a set piece for the second time this season in two games.”

He continued: “We’ve had a chat in the changing room and we’ve got to be better – we’ve got to be more ruthless and we’ve got to be more street wise when we are defending set pieces. After that we began to grow into the game a little bit more and in the final 20-25 minutes we’ve been heavily dominant in possession of the ball but we need to be a bit more clinical and just have a little bit more class and elegance in that attacking third in front of goal.”

He went on: “Wilson Kneeshaw had a goalbound effort blocked; their ‘keeper (Ryan Catterick) has held a shot from Charlie Exley in the last minute and we’ve had a penalty shout as well but at the end of the day you create your own luck and I don’t think we created enough chances to go on and win the game. Did we do enough to get a draw? Maybes – but we just didn’t find the right openings tonight so fair play to Bishop Auckland.”