St Albans City saw another lead disappear in a hurry as their FA Trophy campaign ended at Bishop's Stortford - almost as quickly as it began.

They had gotten off to the perfect start in the second round match, the round they entered, with a goal on eight minutes from Dylan Fage.

However, they conceded an equaliser two minutes before half-time, trying to play out from the back, and then another two in the first 15 minutes of the second half to lose 3-1.

It was the fourth defeat in a row and yet again manager David Noble pointed at poor individual efforts.

The boss said: "This is a competition we wanted to have a run in but you want to win every game you play in and I don't like losing.

"It's just a mentality thing. It is individual errors and we are conceding bad goals.

"We have created three unbelievable opportunities through superb bits of football in the first half.

"We've taken one but should have taken all three.

"We've had to work hard to create those opportunities and teams do not have to work [anywhere near as] hard to create chances against us.

"We had a 15-minute spell that is like the other [poor] spells in games recently.

It goes from one mistake to the next to a goal. Changing that momentum is a difficult thing to do but we all need to be on the same page.

"Hard work and strong minds is what is going to get us out of it.

"The first half, bar them scoring, was as well as we've controlled a game. One bad decision and they score a goal from it and rather than us going in 1-0, it's 1-1 and a different game.

"But we've been here before at half-time. We just switch off, we've come out and are not picking up.

"And then the third goal [a penalty], I don't know what we're doing.

"It's going to take hard work and all 14 men, all putting in top performances with fresh minds and focused and without the individual errors.

"But we will. There ill be no less lack of effort from me."

City's next game is on Tuesday night at home to Weston-super-Mare.