Salford City boss Karl Robinson has said they take a collective responsibility over their 3-1 defeat by League Two play-off rivals Grimsby Town.
The Mariners scored three goals in nine first-half minutes, with Cole Stockton on target for Salford after the break on a miserable night at Blundell Park.
As a result, Grimsby leapfrogged Salford into eighth in the table with both sides a point off the play-off places, but the Ammies have now lost five of their past six league games.
Asked whether the players admitted accountability at half-time and full-time, Robinson told Radio Manchester: “I do as well, it’s not just them. We do it as a collective.
“You’ve got to make sure in those moments when you are challenged with emotion and a little bit of quality that you stay calm in your actions.
“If I’m critiquing the group, in that nine‑minute period, some players lost complete control of their emotions. That’s what cost us the game.
“If you watched the game and took the goals out of it, you’d probably think we were maybe the team that would have won the game. It’s baffling.”