Alex Revell says his Stevenage side gave themselves a "mountain to climb” against Wanderers due to mistakes.

Early goals from Ricardo Santos and John McAtee saw the Whites seize control of the game at the Lamex Stadium.

Victor Adeboyejo and Dion Charles also struck in the second half, although Dan Kemp did pull one back for the hosts.

“If you make mistakes, you get punished against good teams,” Revell told the club channels. “Ultimately, we had a 15-minute spell in the first half where they showed their quality and caused us problems in terms of that width that they got.

“They are a possession based team and they are going to have possession against you, but we concede two set pieces against a team who play free flowing football.

“If you don’t mark and give players time in the box, they score goals. Once it went 2-0 and we sussed out what we had to do, we started to show stuff on the ball.

“But even then, there were too many turnovers and we kept giving the ball away. When you play a team like these and they break on you at pace, they have good players in certain areas and they punish you.”

He added: “The third goal was a mistake, an air swing, and it goes straight to the lad with the goal in front of him.

“The fourth, I think Taye (Ashby-Hammond) should save. We have to look at it and it has been a tough week in terms of results.”

Stevenage skipper Carl Piergianni had a penalty shout turned down by referee Carl Brook moments before Adeboyejo’s goal.

“It is a penalty,” Revell insisted. “I think when you look back, the one on Saturday (against Rotherham) wasn’t but that is.

“For some reason, we don’t get them here when we have those opportunities. If that goes 2-1, it is the same as when we scored – all of a sudden belief and we look like the team that is going to go on again.

“We have a chance at the back post, we have shots and you are thinking if one of those goes in, the comeback is there.

“But the minute you gather that momentum, the ball ends up in the net and you can see the players, that confidence in getting back into the game drains.

“We have to look at that because, when you defend certain situations and crosses, teams like this are going to have the ball.

“It is about making sure you are defensively solid but also when we win it, we have to break, get forward and get goals.”