Souness: "That Was The Worst Yet"

"We've played three games and tonight is the worst we've played so far," lamented Souness. "To get a result here you need to scrap.

"Up until the second goal went in - which was offside - there was nothing in the game. We may have started better than them, but in the end they won comfortably, scoring two goals at a great time - just before and just after half-time - with the second goal seeing us off.

"It was disappointing some of my players didn't raise their game after that, but Bolton are a difficult opposition to play against. Before the game the players were asked to match Bolton for effort and in terms of battling qualities and until that second goal went in, we did that.

"There were not many chances throughout the game. But we know what we are after, what we are chasing. If you look at the two door-openers we have in Kieron Dyer and Emre, they were not on the pitch for us.

"While you always want to create more, this is a difficult place to play football, and while we have not had the cutting edge, that is why we are targeting the players we have been doing.

"But we will keep going. We have played three games and I feel we have played well in two and a half of those, other than the second half here because the game was won when they scored their second. So we will keep going. There is nothing wrong with the spirit in the dressing room and we were a match for them prior to that second goal."