BLACKBURN Rovers boss Sam Allardyce was left frustrated at his side’s defending in the defeat at Stoke City on Saturday.

Former Rovers striker Jon Walters stole in behind the visitors’ usually dependable defence on 48 minutes with Allardyce describing the defending as unacceptable.

Allardyce said: “It was such an easy defensive position to defend.

"We don’t often see our central defenders mess it up like that to let what was a nothing situation develop into what was then a goalscoring situation which they took and it ended up being the winning goal.

“It is very frustrating to concede that type of goal at that particular time of the game, and then frustrating that it is the first time that we haven’t scored in the league this year and we’ve ended up with a 1-0 defeat.

“Goals are always difficult for us to come by, we know that, but we have scored in every game and if we had kept that going it would have gotten us a 1-1, but it hasn’t happened.

“Our deficiencies defensively have made it so easy for them to nip through and score, bog-standard basic defending has let us down.”