Robins 'embarrassed' by blunder

Keane pleased to earn three points after below-par display

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Robins 'embarrassed' by blunder

Robins: Red-faced

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Mark Robins felt Barnsley 'shot themselves in the foot' during Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Ipswich, while Roy Keane was pleased to win ugly.

The Tykes were left embarrassed by an early blunder by goalkeeper Luke Steele as he lost possession by the touchline, having raced out of his area.

Pablo Counago's angled effort hit the post and Daryl Murphy was on hand to bury his sixth goal in 11 games.

"We gave them a stupid goal," said Tykes boss Robins. "It was a comedy of errors and not one we want to repeat.

"He (Steele) can't explain it. He made a bad, poor decision to come out and then he left the ball on the touchline.

"After that he was always going to struggle to get back in goal. What we saw was a hot head. We shot ourselves in the foot.

"It was an embarrassing goal and something you rarely see. We're normally organised, fairly resolute and hard to break down, but today there was no doubt we gave them the goal."

Decent victory

Keane said: "It was a decent victory. To win without playing particularly well, we'll take that all day.

"It wasn't pretty but we'll have to take it, particularly given our position in the league - beggars can't be choosers.

"It was a good start. We went a goal up in four or five minutes and should have scored one or two more after that.

"In the second half we faced a lot of pressure. It would have been lovely to get a second goal and would have settled the team down but it wasn't to be.

"We got an honest performance from them and that's all I can ever ask for. Whether we won or lost, it didn't really matter to me.

"All I wanted was an honest performance and I was content with the players."

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