Leeds must improve - McAllister

McAllister found no positives in Saturday's defeat to Oldham (Getty)

Leeds United manager Gary McAllister has said he will demand a big improvement from his players after their defeat to Oldham on Saturday.

Leeds lost 2-0 at Elland Road and McAllister pulled no punches when assessing the performance.

"I felt the players were brimming with confidence but we never got going," he told BBC Radio Leeds.

"There's no excuse, I'm not saying it was missed chances or refereeing decisions, that wasn't acceptable."

Leeds went into the game after back-to-back wins but two second half goals from Oldham condemned them to defeat and McAllister struggled to find any positives in the performance.

I just think it was purely a case of us not having any players who were at it today Gary McAllister

"You certainly can't go pointing fingers at any particular individuals or even groups of the make-up of the team, it was one through to eleven," he said.

"I've got to be thinking that was a freak result, things have been excellent in the last two or three weeks but we just dropped off the pace today.

"Sometimes you just hold your hands up and say you've been out-fought, or they did something tactically that we couldn't cope with, or they were technically better.

"I don't think it was any of them, I just think it was purely a case of us not having any players who were at it today."