Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill has revealed that goalkeeper Roy Carroll has taken responsibility for the goal that saw them fall to a 1-0 defeat to Turkey on Friday.
A misunderstanding between the former Manchester United stopper and Chris Baird allowed Mevlut Erdinc to score the only goal of the game in first-half injury time.
Ireland nearly equalised with a fortunate goal of their own, when Aaron Hughes's deflected header came back off the crossbar on a night when O'Neill was again cursing his side's lack of luck.
O'Neill told reporters: "Roy Carroll held his hands up. He knows himself he made the wrong decision for their goal and he's disappointed in that.
"Roy called for the ball and Chris Baird left it for him. The centre-forward just continued his run and got a toe to it. Chris did the right thing in thinking Roy was coming to take it but that wasn't the case.
"This team has suffered quite a few injustices in terms of not getting what they deserve from games and this was probably another example of that. We've have come out on the wrong end of a sequence of bad decisions, bad goals, deflections."
Carroll, now playing for Olympiacos, has made 32 international appearances since debuting in 1997.
