Alexander's men had not played since a 4-1 victory over Crewe on December 28th and he admitted: "We were very ring rusty, normally I can't fault any of my players' effort or commitment but here I felt that nobody produced a performance.
"It is simply not acceptable to play as well as we did against Crewe and then to come out and perform like that.
"It's only an excuse but we haven't played for four weeks and it looked like it but still it simply wasn't good enough."
Source: Team Talk
Source: Team Talk