Reading FC manager Paul Ince wants his side to be ‘accountable collectively’ after a terrible first-half display cost them defeat against Birmingham City.

Three individual errors saw the Royals go three goals down before they fought back late in the second-half to make it 3-2.

“It was a catalogue of errors, all three goals were mistakes,” said Ince.

“You look at them and think you want to get a foothold in the game at a tough place on a Friday night. It was an accumulation of errors and that cost us. .

“We had two great chances. Yak should have scored.

“But they took the momentum and It was another mistake where we don’t switch on.

“ It was horrendous to be fair. It’s not like Birmingham did anything different.

“We were the better team footballing wise but you know what we get them. You can’t give teams 3-0 leads.

“I don’t care who you are, you can’t do it. It’s not like they cut us apart, we gave them three goals.

“They had one cleared off the line and could have gone 4-0 up. You have to learn from your lessons.

“At 3-2, you’re thinking a couple of more minutes and we might nick a point.

“We made individual mistakes you can’t make.”

Ince has challenged his team to regroup and learn from their mistakes.

He continued: “You can’t give teams 3-0 starts at any level and we’ve got to be accountable individually and collectively. We’ve got to learn from them or we will keep getting punished.

“It’s poor from us and that’s the most frustrating thing. It’s about pride then when our fans travel up in the freezing cold on a Friday night we had to give them something to shout about. That’s the only positive to come out of it.

“We got a couple of goals back. We had 20 shots which is unlike us. We missed some good chances and so did they.

“I felt before the game we could have won it.”

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