Doncaster boss Dean Saunders fears their failure to take their chances will cost them, while Sam Allardyce is refusing to panic.
Rovers boss seeks killer touch, Allardyce bemoans decisions
Doncaster boss Dean Saunders fears their failure to take their chances will cost them, while Sam Allardyce is refusing to panic.
Doncaster picked up a precious point in a 1-1 draw with promotion-chasing West Ham, but the Yorkshire outfit could have taken all three points after missing several clear chances for a surprise win at Upton Park.
James Coppinger cancelled out Kevin Nolan's early opener and only a good save from Rob Green late on prevented El-Hadji Diouf from earning Doncaster a priceless win.
The draw leaves Rovers four points adrift of safety and Saunders has warned his players they need to start taking their chances if they want to have any chance of staying up.
Achilles heel
"That's been our Achilles heel to be honest, missing chances. Looking back we should have won the last nine games but haven't because missed chances have cost us," he said.
"We're fighting for our lives and some of those players are fighting for their careers. I've asked them who they would rather play, the teams coming down from the Premier League next season or the teams coming up from League Two.
"Unfortunately we just haven't had that little bit of luck which probably would have seen us sitting in mid-table now, rather than in the bottom three.
"But I stood on the touchline today with pride at how we fought back from a bad start. Sometimes you are cringing but it was just pride here. West Ham are a very good side and will probably get promoted.
"Giles Barnes has put a header wide and then at the end the goalkeeper has made a brilliant save to deny Diouf."
Allardyce is also under pressure after the Hammers failed to win at home for the fourth game in a row and the Hammers chief claimed referee Andy D'Urso's decision to rule out Ricardo Vaz Te's early goal summed up their luck.
"We just didn't finish them off when we had the chances early on and that has cost us," bemoaned Allardyce.
"Vaz Te has scored in the first minute and I'm not sure what was wrong with it and then maybe we should have had a penalty with the handball so decisions haven't gone for us in this game.
No panic
"We are not going to panic but you would always like to win your home games. The Southampton draw felt like a win but the three draws have been disappointing.
"But we'll just keep going and keep fighting. We need to just keep our heads but it's not the end of the world.
"If we'd won two at home and drawn three away people would be saying we're on a good run but because it's the other way round we're all little bit disappointed and I can understand that."
