NEIL Warnock has spoken of his disappointment of his Middlesbrough's back-up squad being beaten by Blackpool's second XI.
Boro were beaten 3-0 at Bloomfield Road in the first round of the EFL Cup last night thanks to goals from Callum Connelly in the first half and then two goals in two minutes in the second from Shayne Lavery and Keshi Anderson.
Warnock relied on a number of youngsters to fill the void after he handed starts to Jack Robinson, Connor Malley, Nathan Wood, Isaiah Jones and Josh Coburn while they were debuts for Sol Bamba, Lee Peltier and Martin Payero.
"We got well and truly beaten" said Warnock.
“At 1-0 I thought we had some good chances to get back in it, but we never really capitalised on anything. We never looked like scoring.
“I am not very happy tonight. It is disappointing because that is our back-up squad against their back-up squad.
“It has answered a few questions, which is what I wanted. We have not got a squad big enough to come here and lose two players.
“Tonight shows what we have got in back-up and it is disappointing really. There were one or two players that were poor.”
Next up for Middlesbrough is a home tie in the Championship this weekend against Bristol City.
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