Lee Bullen urged his Ayr players to cut out the defensive errors as Raith left Somerset Park with all three points. Dylan Easton's first half double left United with a mountain they ultimately could not climb after the interval.
And it left a frustrated Bullen to curse the number of goals his side are gifting - with Ayr already leaking 16 this Championship season.He said: "You cannot keep having to score three goals to win a game and that's us at the moment.
We're losing two goals a game and that cannot continue to be the case. This is another game where we created more than enough to take something so I'm very, very disappointed not to get anything out of it.
We switched off and got punished and needed to be more aggressive in that first half."A mad 15 minute spell has led to us losing the game of football.
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