Gillingham boss Neil Harris admitted Bolton Wanderers were deserved winners at Priestfield on Saturday but questioned why his team's levels dropped.
The visitors went infront with a great strike from Aaron Morley and extended their lead after Dan Phillips had been sent off for the Gills. Bolton left as 3-0 winners.
“I don’t want to lose games at Priestfield but Bolton deserved to win the game,” said the Gills boss.
“We have come off the back of a really strong performance at Lincoln (winning 2-0 last week) and a really good result. We deserved to win that game and we had a positive week, the atmosphere in the stadium before the game was really good at the start. We started well, on the front foot, could gave got infront.
“There are some good sides in this division, we are where we are for a reason over the course of the season. We are trying to rescue the season, we have done brilliantly up until now and this is just a set-back for us. It is a harsh set-back to lose 3-0 at home infront of your own fans in a game you think is winnable.
“They got themselves infront with a really good goal, 25 yards into the top corner, you can’t stop them.
“We had chances, their build-up play was excellent, they played a bit of risk and reward with the ball, committed people forward but they played extremely well and got into good areas, I just thought maybe our levels were off and I will have a look at why, look at the training in the week and how hard we worked, maybe too hard, but we got things wrong tactically as well without the ball.
“As good teams do, they find a way to hurt you, going in at half-time we regrouped, changed the shape slightly, I thought second half we looked a lot better, a lot more coherent as a team and no issues.
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