JOHN Coleman was furious his side conceded two 'stupid goals' that denied them a valuable three points against Wycombe on Tuesday night.

The Reds dominated the first half and went in front when winger Sean Clare scored his first goal for the club.

But Chairboys striker Adebayo Akinfenwa netted twice in two minutes after restart, and it needed Matty Pearson's header salvaged a point.

Coleman was seething afterwards that his side had not won and put more distance between themselves and the bottom two, stating players had 'switched off' to allow 'The Beast' to bag his brace.

"I'm furious that we go to sleep for two throw-ins in a minute," said the Stanley boss afterwards.

"We know our jobs, they are given them on the training ground. The man who is screening the first man has to go and take the thrower.

"He switches off, he gets sucked back to the ball, the ball gets knocked back to his man, crossed in and – although it was a bit of a fluke the way it's gone in because I think it came off his shoulder – he does have a habit of scoring against us unfortunately.

"We should deal with the cross better but the cross shouldn't come in.

"Jordan (Clark) knows his job and he knows he's made an error for that."

Coleman added: "They never laid a glove on us in the first half.

"People go on about Akinfenwa, and he is a good player, but he was totally ineffective in the first half.

"We allowed him the chance to be effective because we allowed them to put balls into our box.

"The second goal is pathetic. All the players are convinced he handled it, but the ball should never ever make its way to his chest.

"We've got experienced players there who have switched off, gone to sleep, ball watching.

"For it to happen once is possibly unlucky, twice is careless. All your hard work is undone."

Accrington have now conceded 11 goals in their last five games and the manager admits they will have to improve to take advantage of the two games in hand they have on most teams around them.

He said: "If that was a boxing match we'd have won on points comfortably.

"But it's not a boxing match, it's a football match and it's all about goals.

"We've rediscovered our scoring touch but we've got this habit of conceding stupid goals and that's come to hurt us again."

Coleman was pleased to see young loanee Clare break his scoring duck when he headed home Clark's corner in first-half stoppage-time.

"It was a smashing finish and I thought he was very lively in the first half, although he tired a bit in the second half," said the boss.

"I can't be too critical of the players because we've put in two biog shifts.

"We worked ever so hard on Saturday (at Doncaster), even though I thought we could have played better.

"Tonight we've been done by two really poor lapses of concentration and that's something that we have to address."