Phil Parkinson has told his players to get their heads round City’s situation after accusing them of accepting defeat too easily.

AFC Wimbledon came from behind to inflict a third successive loss on Parkinson’s team and they now sit only two points off the bottom.

It came as a nasty shock for the manager, who had been expecting a response after the awful second-half display at Crawley.

Parkinson remains confident that City will pull themselves out of their current 22nd-placed predicament but warned that the team must toughen up.

He said: “Of course it’s worrying because we’re down there. But when you look at the squad we’ve got, then that gives me hope for the games coming up.

“I do believe we’ve got enough quality in this side to start getting results.

“I would be really worried if I didn’t think we had the players. But I think we have, we just need a stronger mentality about us and to work harder on the defensive side because the goals (being conceded) are cheap.

“We’ve got to pull together to grind ourselves out of this situation. To do that we need more than what we showed when we went 2-1 down.”

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