Ricardo Moniz bemoans "childish mistakes" in Carlisle thrashing

Ricardo Moniz has hit out at Notts County's "childish mistakes" in their 3-0 defeat to Carlisle United.

The League Two clash on Saturday had to be played at Preston North End’s Deepdale stadium after Carlisle's Brunton Park was hit by Storm Desmond over a fortnight ago.

Despite this, former Magpies manager Keith Curle’s current side were two goals up by half time thanks to a Danny Grainger penalty and a strike by Jabo Ibehre, before the latter scored again after the break to earn the ‘hosts’ a thumping win.

Moniz told local media: "To concede a penalty so early brought them into the game. We should have cleared the ball and these are childish mistakes. You can't dribble in your own box, you learn that when you are playing in the under-12s. 

We did hit the post which, had that gone in, would have given us an equaliser and put us right back into it. But I do not think they were better than us. They had three moments which they scored from.

"We had moments, but didn't score. In the second half we had a few good chances. But you can't make individual mistakes like we have been doing."

Notts will spend Christmas 15th in the table, their 29 points from 22 games putting them seven points behind the playoffs.