Adam Lakeland cut a frustrated figure as his King’s Lynn Town side missed a golden opportunity to go top of the National League North.

Lynn were beaten 2-0 at home by struggling Farsley Celtic, two defensive lapses proving costly.

And while disappointment was palpable on and off the pitch, it was compounded by results elsewhere – leaders Scunthorpe lost at Spennymoor while second-placed Chorley went down 3-0 at Marine.

The top three remained the same – certainly ahead of Curzon Ashton’s Wednesday night game – and all three will be kicking themselves.

“I don't look at the results immediately, to be honest,” Lynn boss Aam Lakeland said after Tuesday night’s defeat. “I'm not really bothered what anybody else does. But Sam (Walker) came in and mentioned that both Chorley and Scunthorpe, obviously with ourselves the top three teams in the league going into tonight, have all lost.

“That probably makes it feel worse to be honest because it's an opportunity to get another three points on the board when teams that are going to be up there come the end of the season, have also dropped points. That's something that we should be really frustrated about.”

Frustrating was the unfortunate buzzword.

“Incredibly frustrating,” said Lakeland. “I'm really disappointed with, in the end, the performance, the result and the goals especially.

“If we've got aspirations of being up there, we have to win games like that, and that's no disrespect to Farsley at all. I had a bad feeling about this game. Just because everybody says if you look at their recent results - and they’ve played every single game this season away from home, even their home games - they're organised and they’re gritty and they've got some good players in there.

“Fair play to them, but I'm really disappointed with their goals. And it's not the first time now that I've seen that; we've been defensively very, very sound in the main, but the times when we've conceded two goals or the one time where we've conceded more than two, the goals have been unacceptable.

“The most frustrating thing about it is that we started really well and we looked like a really good team. We should have been ahead. It's simple as that. We were well on top of them, we were getting in, getting round, getting through, the keeper has made a couple of saves, we've missed some chances and then just a lapse in concentration on a transition, a player who we know comes inside and it's too easy for him to get it onto his right foot and then the shot’s not hit with any venom and it's gone into the middle of goal and it's just a poor goal.

“The second goal was a carbon copy of the goal we conceded here against Peterborough Sports and I can't see the same mistakes if we want to be where we want to be, so we've got a lot of thinking to do.”