Cardiff City boss Neil Harris was left fielding questions about his future after Nottingham Forest dumped his team out of the FA Cup.
The Reds made it six unbeaten in all competitions as they progressed to the fourth round with a 1-0 win, thanks to Lyle Taylor’s early strike.
For their opponents, it was a fourth straight defeat - leaving manager Harris under pressure.
“I can't control that," he told WalesOnline, when asked about his position. "I'm fed up of taking questions on that, if I'm honest. I'd rather focus on my players.
"It was a much better performance, a game we completely controlled and we should never have lost the game. But we have lost the game, so I understand that is four defeats.”
He added: "I understand criticism when you don't win games.
"I understand expectation levels, like when I came in last season and came fifth in the division when we looked miles away from it when I came in.
"I understand I've built the expectation levels for this year.
"We started slowly, had a fantastic run and we are in a bit of a slump again at the moment.
"People think the easiest thing is to just change the manager. Sometimes you have to look deeper than that within the club. The mindset, the mentality, the recruitment over a period and then what we want to do in the future.
"I want better results and I want to change the mentality within the football club."
Taylor’s well-struck volley in the third minute proved the difference between the two sides, with the Forest front man finishing off a Gaetan Bong cross.
“I picked a team to win, because the FA Cup is a wonderful competition, even if it has lost some of its sparkle because the pandemic means there aren’t any fans,” Harris said.
“But, while I’m not overly disappointed with the performance because we controlled the majority of the game, our main downfall was the poor goal we conceded.
“That was really disappointing so early in the game. We should have stopped the cross and then we gave their striker an opportunity to score from 12 yards.
“It was still a great finish and, if you look at his goal and the one from Junior Hoilett that went an inch over, it shows the close margins, but we still have to do better. We had 15 shots and lots of balls that went across their six-yard box, but couldn’t find that moment of quality.”
