Liam Kinsella felt Swindon Town were too 'sloppy' v Barrow

Town were comfortably swept to one side by Barrow as they wreaked havoc on the Swindon defence as Sam Foley, Kian Spence, and James Chester all turned home from crosses.

Kinsella felt that Swindon’s struggles in possession also leaked into helping Barrow to punish them at the other end of the field.

He said: “I think the effort was there, but we were sloppy on the ball and gave it away too easily and they got chances from that.

“Especially in the first half we were a bit sloppy on the ball and then that invites pressure when you are giving them the ball and then they can start attacks.

“It was just too easy, and we knew that in the first half, we had a chat at halftime about not being sloppy and doing what we were doing.

“We needed to take the shackles off, not be nervous, and just give it our all going forward and obviously that just didn’t work out for us today.

“We were getting pressure, we just couldn’t really create that opportunity to get a shot on target and we just didn’t make as many as we would have liked.”

Kinsella said that despite Swindon being aware of the Bluebird’s prowess from dead balls, they could not stop the visitors from capitalising on them.

He said: “When you look back at the goals we conceded, obviously they were set pieces.

“We knew they were going to be strong with their set pieces; the first one is well worked but I think we still need to be switched on to see the boy on the edge of the box.

“And obviously with the third one we have just left him at the back post and he has a had a free header.

“Like I said, we knew they were going to be strong with their set pieces and we just weren’t there.

“It was one of those games that was a battle, it was an ugly game, and a game of second balls and they go long so we had to work hard to pick up the second balls.

“We had to work hard all over the pitch because they are a good team and they are up there for a reason.”