Bolton Wanderers failed to adapt to the conditions in front of them at Plymouth Argyle according to Ian Evatt and that his side did not carry on with early tactics which could have bore fruit.
Wanderers suffered a 3-0 loss at Home Park in heavy rain and windy conditions which prevailed in Devon last night.
Wanderers fell behind in the first half to a quickfire double from the hosts scored by Brendan Galloway and Conor Grant.
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Bolton tried to find a way back into the encounter, but in increasingly treacherous weather condtions as the rain got heavier and heavier in Devon, Ryan Broom scored the Pilgrims' third as full-time approached.
The result leaves Wanderers 11th in League One, with their next encounter this Saturday at home against Gillingham.
The third goal perhaps typified the conditions, as Bolton goalkeeper Joel Dixon had misjudged the conditions as Danny Mayor got the ball before him, before he played in Ryan Hardie, who in turn played in Broom as water sprayed off the Home Park pitch surface which slowed the ball down and the Argyle man eventually buried.
In the game's very early stages, Bolton experienced some joy as Wanderers went long and nearly created opportunites involving Amadou Bakayoko and Lloyd Isgrove.
But Evatt was left frustrated by his side reverting to their usual passing style out of the back four when conditions were just not conducive to that kind of game.
And the Bolton boss believed his side had to work that out for themselves on the pitch and that failing to do it ended up costing them dearly.
He said: “Minute one in difficult conditions, we play up to Baka and why he was in the team, he wins a header, we almost get in with Lloyd and then two or three minutes later, we’re trying to clip it to full-backs in conditions which aren’t conducive to that.
"We’re inviting pressure, set play, goal, set play, goal, we’re out of the game, it’s as simple as that.
“No matter how hard we tried second half with the opportunities and we did have them, we just didn’t take them and we needed that goal. We needed the next goal, couldn’t get it, and then the last one is farcical.
“Everybody can see it. The last place you want the ball when you’re playing in those conditions is in your half of the pitch. Work the opposition, work defenders. In those conditions, it’s conducive to defensive errors. People slip, people fall over, the bounce of the ball, the wind, just make it difficult for them.
“It might not be all nice and pretty like we want it to be, but you have to find different ways to win the game and today we did if for the first minute and then completely changed tack and tried to play out in awful conditions and it cost us dearly.
“It just comes down to individual errors and individual decision making. Today, Joel’s been fantastic but we shouldn’t be clipping full-backs in conditions like that.
"We’re against a gale force wind, wind flying in our face, they’re on a high press, just get it to our front players. We had good success in the first minute, we change our mind and try and be fancy so to speak and then we got punished with two poorly defended set plays.
“But they’re not easy to defend in those conditions, so avoid giving them away and we gave them away by trying to play out in conditions which were not conducive to that.
"We don’t want to be that going forwards, we all know what type of team we are and what type of team we want to be, but nights like this, you have to find a different way and we didn’t.”
