Reading boss Ruben Selles admitted his side were 'nowhere near their best' during Saturday's 4-1 defeat to Blackpool.

Veteran forward Jordan Rhodes hit a hattrick at Bloomfield Road and the Royals only got on the score sheet through a deflected Sam Hutchinson cross.

Dispersing frustrated supporters in the stands after the game, Selles admitted it was not good enough on the Lancashire coast.

"It was not good enough," he told the official club media. "After we conceded the first goal we just started to do things that we don’t do and concede three goals in the first half – this is not acceptable.

"We tried to change things in the second half to go after the game but then we conceded the fourth one – it was not good enough, nowhere near our best from any of us today.

"Besides the first part of the game, the first 10/15 minutes, we were not able to have a lot of ball, not able to control, to pass, to do the things we usually do.

"We were not able to apply the pressure with the second balls, with the good transitions, and the opposition were able to do it, and we did something radical to change the dynamic of the game.

"I think we got it but we conceded really quick that fourth goal and then it just killed our wish to come back into the game, but we needed to do it."

Reading now face a clear week ahead of the visit of Burton Albion on Saturday.