Plymouth Argyle boss Tom Cleverley was left unhappy with his side’s “casual” nature in their 1-0 loss to Peterborough United.

Having won three successive games in all competitions the Pilgrims went into the game against a side who had been bottom of the table at kick-off.

But Jimmy-Jay Morgan’s first-half goal was enough for posh to earn their second win of the season – despite Argyle having a goal ruled out shortly before half-time.

“I thought we lacked a bit of tempo, we didn’t test their box enough, we didn’t manage the game well enough in the last hand an hour when we need to be a bit more direct,” said Cleverley, who watched the game from the stands after being sent off last week.

“We bring a second striker on, they camped in a little bit and football’s not perfect, we’re not going to play nice pretty stuff all the time, sometimes it’s test their box enough times until something breaks through, and I don’t think we did that today.

“The mindset and approach was to be questioned. It’s the first time you can say we’ve been real favourites – bookmaker’s favourites – it wasn’t the internal approach of the game.

“But I didn’t think we handled that tag well enough at all, we were a bit casual and rightly so got punished.”