MANAGER'S VIEW: 'I take complete responsibility' reaction from David Healy as defending champions lose to league's bottom side
Linfield – the defending league champions – suffered a shock 2-1 away loss to Premiership bottom side Glenavon as Charlie Allen’s late strike failed to alter the points-winning position secured by home goals from teenagers Ben Wilson and Paul McGovern.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE...
"Disappointing, frustrating, not good enough from start to finish.
"A few moments with the game stalemate that we potentially could have done a little bit better with...we didn't.
"Then we got done with two really, really poor goals...that's the frustrating part of it.
"We've been on an okay run...we're probably coming off the back of one of our better performances last week against Crusaders.
"Strong performance away at Larne, we've had a couple against Coleraine and Cliftonville...teams in form.
"And then to come down and manage to play the way we did today was poor."
PERSONAL VIEW...
"I take complete responsibility for it as the manager.
"I choose the team, I choose the selections.
"So I, rightly or wrongly, want to apologise for the performance today.
"We couldn't get it right in any area."
GLENAVON THREAT...
"Credit to Michael (O'Connor, Glenavon boss), his staff and Glenavon.
"We stressed all week the importance of this game, never mind Boxing Day or Coleraine after that.
"We just couldn't quite grasp the level of intensity that we needed to get to win the game today, so it's disappointing.
"One thing that we always try to do at Linfield is to take a defeat, be humble.
"Credit to Glenavon...three games that they had won previously have all been at home.
"Something that we talked about this week, so all the points that they picked up have all been at home.
"It wasn't as if we were coming in blindsided by that.
"We knew that, the players knew that, I was completely aware of it. "I knew they would get a reaction from their heavy defeat last week, which they did."
BELOW-PAR LINFIELD...
"We were easy for them today.
"We didn't have anybody anywhere near the required standard, today, at the level that we needed.
"Normally you can maybe get away with one or two or maybe even three at times, if you have a little bit of quality in the final third.
"We didn't have any of that today."