Nathan Jones felt like his side needed to show more quality and was left frustrated by a decisive penalty decision on Wednesday evening, as they were narrowly beaten by promotion-chasing Ipswich Town.
A Jaden Philogene penalty proved to be the decisive goal for the Tractor Boys on an evening which saw the Addicks take an early lead through Greg Docherty, but would see their efforts go unrewarded with Jaden Philogene's second-half penalty proving to be the difference.
"The penalty is really frustrating," Jones explained.
"It is a penalty, you just can’t do it. We have got to do better in those situations, you can’t just gift them something. He got the wrong side of him, pulls him back and the referee gives a penalty, and he was right to do so.
"These are the moments and situations we have to eradicate, we need to give one big performance."
"I was pleased with the level of performance," he added.
"It is just moments that are killing us, it really is. We started really well, we were aggressive, we went after them, and we had other opportunities. We just need to be better in those moments and have a bit of killer instinct."
Meanwhile, the gaffer was forced to make changes due to injury throughout the game.
'We made changes, we lose the few injuries that were really disruptive to us, and it was just one of those frustrating nights," Jones explained.
"We have to make sure that they [the injured player] do everything and we do everything to patch everyone up to go again.
In terms of the level of performance, Jones added: "I was pleased, we started well, some were tactical changes today and some were enforced. We didn’t build on things when we were on top, we didn’t punish when we had those opportunities.
"Someone scores outside the box against us which is something we have been working on, getting to the ball quickly or whatever it is, and we didn’t do that. No one carves us open, no one gets behind us, it is clear shots from outside the box in terms of things, where we need to be better at defending that."
"We came up against a very good side today, we pushed them to the very end but we cannot gift goals away and then have to go chase the game," added the Addicks boss.
"We needed that one real bit of quality, when someone puts a ball on someone’s head, that run, that little bit of quality that other teams are demonstrating and we need to demonstrate that."
"The level of performance was there, we need one really big performance to get us over the line. At the moment we are relying on other people to do our jobs for us and that is not good enough."
"We need to do a full 90 minutes of concentration of defending, of doing all the basics, and at times when you get opportunities to hurt them, you hurt them with a bit of quality. Everything has to come together for one performance."
"I cannot question the team’s work rate, the effort, the determination, everything is there."
