GERAINT WILLIAMS accepted his Orient side were second best in Saturday's defeat to Huddersfield Town.

Jordan Rhodes and Theo Robinson scored the goals as play-off chasing Huddersfield eased past the O's and manager Williams was disappointed with the performance.

He felt Huddersfield were allowed to dictate far too easily and Orient were unable to respond.

"It was a thoroughly deserved defeat," he said. "We were very poor.

"In the opening five minutes we set about doing what we want to do - turn them around, get in their half and try to play football - but after that it took until the 94th minute to get a shot on target.

"We were all over the shop defensively in the first half. We kept appealing for offsides, and we weren't solid enough in a line as a back four.

"We talked about it at half time and improved in the second half but we still conceded.

"After the first five minutes we looked like the away side, and that hasn't happened to us at home since I've been at the football club.

"There was a battle of wills, where we tried to get into their half and turn them around. They said no, we're going to step on to you and stop you doing that, and they won that battle of wills. They ultimately won the game because of that."

Williams was particularly disappointed with the O's inability to build on last week's positive showing against Walsall.

On that occasion the gameplan was executed to perfection and the boss couldn't believe the difference between the two games.

"It's very frustrating, because we can't go from one extreme to the other like that," he added.

"Last week we were excellent defensively, and creative going forward, and we can't drop our levels of performance as much as we did today.

"Give Huddersfield credit, they are a very good side, and we didn't look like we were going to get anything out of the game.

"Once they scored the second, I don't think there was the belief out there on the pitch that we were going to get back into it,

"The fans stayed with us and tried to get the players going, but we didn't get going today."

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