NEWPORT County AFC manager Graham Westley is convinced Wycombe Wanderers should have had a man sent off and conceded a penalty before they netted a last gasp winner at Rodney Parade last night.

Wycombe midfielder Marcus Bean escaped without a second caution before the break and defender Aaron Pierre looked to have brought down County substitute Jennison Myrie-Williams in the box before Sido Jombati’s free-kick winner on 88 minutes.

But, despite questioning referee John Busby’s decisions, Westley admitted his team were did not do enough to win the game.

“I don’t speak to referees,” said the Exiles boss after the final whistle. “They’ll see it as they see it and I never question anybody’s integrity.

“Going into the game I was obviously concerned that he’d refereed eight away wins and sometimes in your own head you start thinking ‘is he the type of person who doesn’t go with the crowd and almost wants to stand up against the crowd and show that he can be counted?’

“But football is a matter of opinions; the decisions are the decisions and we’ve got to look at ourselves and think about the things we can do better, things we can control that can win games.

“There should have been a red card and there should have been a penalty but we don’t want to bemoan those decisions because late on pushing for the game we conceded.

“I’ve always said that at 0-0 I’ll push for wins because if you win one and lose one you end up with three points and that’s better than two draws.

“So we’ll always push and throw bodies forward and you’re always liable to be counter-attacked.”

Westley says his players needed to go up another level after their 3-0 win at Notts County on Saturday and they failed to do that.

“We can be better than that and we will be better going forward,” he said.

“We perhaps went in with the mentality, if the players are honest, that if we played as well as we did at the weekend or with the same appetite as we had at the weekend we’d win the game.

“I felt they’d have to show more and I’m not sure mentally we really got ourselves up for doing more than we did at the weekend.

“They [Wycombe] have got a great run of results behind them, they’ve got a great appetite and they were pushing for a play-off place.

“They’ll learn going forward that if I say to them this is going to be a tougher proposition they’ll believe me to a greater extent and that’ll be good for us.”