Slavisa Jokanovic believes Fulham weren't aggressive enough as they lost 2-1 to Burton Albion at the Pirelli Stadium.
Burton took the lead through Stephen Warnock when Sean Scannell found himself in behind the defence, before he pulled the ball back into the Fulham box, a ball that Oliver Norwood could only deflect into the path of the left back.
Norwood pulled Fulham level but a questionable penalty saw Burton take the lead once again, and despite bombarding the hosts' area with ball after ball the away side could find no way through.
Jokanovic believes that penalty decision was a "strange one" but has said his side weren't aggressive enough to stand up to Burton.
He said: “We gave them two advantages, and in this small game it’s not always easy to score the goals, they were cheap goals. We weren’t aggressive enough.
“The penalty was strange. Without talking too much, if this is a penalty… There was a situation with Floyd Ayité in the opposite box, one situation is a penalty and the other’s not a penalty.
“I don’t complain, I don’t want to talk about this, but today it was a strange attitude by the referee.
"We didn’t give them so many presents last game like today, we didn’t have this bad luck with the referee that we found today.
“We didn’t play worse than that day but in different moments we weren’t aggressive enough, we made some costly mistakes.
“We created the chances like we always make, we missed the chances that we always make. We weren’t aggressive enough, and we paid an expensive price for our mistakes. For a long time we’ve paid an expensive price for similar mistakes.”
“We want to fight for more things, we want to be better, but right now we have not improved so much,” he stated. “If we don’t show more ambition to win the game against Burton, it’s complicated to think about more important things.
“The time in front of us is for working and trying to improve. We are not in a good enough level at the moment and we have to push harder to improve.”
