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Gale says he couldn’t see the play well enough to know if it was offside, adding he hadn’t seen the replay.

“I won’t comment on any refereeing decisions.”

Just as damaging for Valour was a botched double substitution attempt that led to Pacific’s winning goal in the 66th minute.

Gale said he had no idea why the referee sent Valour’s Glenn Muenkat back to the sidelines, leaving his team scrambling with a man short.

“I don’t know the explanation, unfortunately,” Gale said. “It cost us. Because we got 10 men on the field for five minutes. I’ve never seen a sub go, and then get told to come back off and then go again.”

In a sullen dressing room, players looked and sounded like they’ve had enough of losing.

“To be honest, I’m fed up of talking about it,” Louis Beland-Goyette said. “We talk about possession team, possession team – we don’t win games. I don’t know when we’re going to wake up and just win the game. We have to play to win. Talk about winning games, and not attractive football.”

Asked what needs to change, Beland-Goyette was just as direct.

“Everything,” he said. “We get back into the game and then we leave another goal – we chase, we chase, we chase. We’re never on our own tempo, scoring and then defending, or scoring one and then another one. We’re always chasing.

“We have to change everything, to be honest. From how we defend to how we attack. Because now it’s one defeat too many. If we don’t change anything it’s just going to roll on, defeats, defeats, defeats. We don’t want to get into that.”