Cleverley unhappy with 'casual' Plymouth Argyle

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."

The game's biggest moment of controversy came when Alex Mitchell's 41st-minute header appeared to have crossed the line.

Posh goalkeeper Alex Bass palmed the ball onto the crossbar and it appeared to bounce down behind the keeper, but the goal was not given.

Cleverley says he saw an angle of the incident which showed that it should have been given as a goal:

"To me it looked clearly in," he told BBC Radio Devon.

"On the broadcast I think it's inconclusive, but from the Mayflower Stand side I've seen an angle where the ball's in.

"Unfortunately there's no goal-line technology in this division, so we'll never know.

"But that's not the place of our focus right now, it's more on our own performance."