JUST when Neil Lennon thought he’d got his defensive problems licked, along comes another leak.

Up until very recently, Wanderers’ season had been summed up by their lack of goals rather than any serious problems keeping them out.

That all changed with the 4-1 thumping at Huddersfield, and since then Lennon’s side has shipped 10 goals in just three games, picking up just a solitary point.

Had the Whites held on to a point against QPR it may have masked over some of the problems that cropped up but Jay Emmanuel-Thomas’s late winner merely magnified them.

Wanderers coughed up possession with 30 seconds remaining, allowing QPR to attack and score a goal that lifted pressure off the shoulders of their own embattled boss Chris Ramsey.

Lennon, meanwhile, admits he will be seeing QPR’s winning goal in his nightmares over the international break.

“When you score three goals away from home you expect to come away with a point and yet we got absolutely nothing,” he said.

“With 30 seconds to go I don’t understand why we are not seeing things out.

“It’s poor game management. You make sure you get the balls in the corners and that they stay high up the pitch.

“We went to ground, it’s not good enough, and though it was a good finish it should have been stopped.

“We played well and I thought we did for the majority of the game. When we scored the third goal I thought ‘we deserved that’ and then all we have to do is see the game out.

“Wellington is running down the wing but instead of going into the corner he crosses it to the keeper and it comes straight back out at us. We should be good enough to deal with it, should be mentally strong enough.

“I’m really angry about that because I’ve seen it too many times now.

“It doesn’t matter which personnel it is, the goal will haunt me now for the next two weeks.”

Lennon reshuffled his defence at half time to cater for the injury of Francesco Pisano but the Wanderers boss felt his side were struggling to cope with the wide threat of Matty Phillips and Tjarron Chery.

“In the last 20 minutes of the first half the centre-halves were not dealing with the crosses that were coming in, for some reason,” he said.

“That’s why David Wheater came in and I think we looked a little more solid after that.

“I don’t know if they are working hard enough to stop crosses or whether they are doing enough to get us up the pitch a little bit. We got too deep in the first half.

“We have to be a lot stronger. We have to head the ball when it comes into our box more.”

At the same time as the defensive issues have started to emerge Wanderers are looking more dangerous in an attacking sense, with Gary Madine, Liam Feeney and Wellington Silva all on target at QPR.

“I think in terms of football in an attacking sense the football is better,” Lennon said.

“There was a spell in the game where we started giving the ball away under no pressure and our decision making at times wasn’t good enough.

“But in general I’m trying to come away with something positive about the game, even though I accept it won’t matter in the cold light of day.”