Omer Riza described Cardiff City's first-half performance against Blackburn Rovers as 'unacceptable'.

Rovers led 1-0 at the break but had been comfortably the more dangerous side. They created multiple opportunities and limited the Bluebirds, who had won four home games on the bounce, to very little.

Riza had some harsh words for his players at the half-time interval and felt they improved after the break. But Rovers still scored twice more and left with the points heading to Lancashire.

"The first half was unacceptable," he told WalesOnline. "I told the boys that in no uncertain terms. 

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"You can't start games slowly, thinking you're going to have loads of time on the ball and that it would be easy, just thinking it's going to be easy and that the opposition are not going to come after you. We lacked intensity, urgency and an idea in the first half.

"When we spoke about prior to the game in terms of what we needed to do, we didn't stick to the game plan. We were our own worst enemy first half.

"Second half I thought the reaction was better. We tried to pressurise them a little bit more and have the ball a lot more. The other part of that, when we had the ball and we delivered into the box, was it with quality? Were our set pieces quality? Not really.

"We got back in the game with the penalty and it's 2-1, you're pushing for that second goal, the crowd are up, but we get hit with the sucker punch again because of the things we haven't done well, not recover, track runners or stop the opposition from scoring. Disappointing overall, but the second half was better."

On his own position, he added: "It depends on what the club wants to do moving forward, only they can answer it.

"What I'm worried about is not winning games. The pressure is there if you don't win games and then the opportunity is there for anything to happen.

"I'm not going to say whether I want the job, you already know the answer to that."