“A game that had everything, your team gave everything, but you walk away with nothing,” came the first post-match question after a 3-2 defeat to league leaders Portsmouth.

“It’s a feeling we have had a lot of times in the last period unfortunately,” Selles said. “We were 2-0 up, we should keep the advantage, we should have been 3-1 up. We missed chances to equalise at the end. But we have lost 3-2 and we leave with the feeling that we should have got more from the game.

“We knew they were a really aggressive team in terms of long ball, second actions and set plays – so we moved Tyler inside so we would be more robust in the air.

“We saw that teams were playing over our pressure on the ball, so we decided to go with three midfielders – one 6 and two 8s – to close the space in the centre and have the pressure line a little bit lower.

“We got it right in the first part of the game, our two 8s scored the two goals – Charlie and Lewis. But then instead of reading the situations, we started to follow the full-backs and open up the centre - and that led to us defending too low.

“We corrected it in the second half, made a bit more of a change by moving Lewis Wing a little bit higher; we needed to be in possession a bit more and we were in the last part of the game.

“In the big picture, we can see that we are competitive against any team. But in the micro situations, we can see that the small decisions are taking us away from where we want to go.

“We need to grow. Unfortunately we are growing in the most cruel and difficult way – by making mistakes. It’s about making sure we don’t give them an opportunity to score with the last kick of the first half, it’s about making sure we put the ball in the back of the net when we get a clear opportunity, it’s about taking our chances when we were 3-2 down and could have equalised.

“We are better than the results we have been getting. We have been competitive again, but we are not closing out the games, we are not doing the things we need to do as a growing team. And that is what is denying us the victories – and that is what we need to start doing, winning games of football right now!

“We need to grow, we need to do it as a team and we need to do it now!”