SCOTT Parker admitted Cherries “looked a little bit naïve” following their last-gasp 3-2 defeat at Luton and added: “There’s loads of learning to be done”.

The Dorset club had fought back from two down to level up at 2-2 at Kenilworth Road, thanks to goals from Emiliano Marcondes and Morgan Rogers.

But Kal Naismith’s 20-yard strike with virtually the final kick of the game meant Cherries came away from the contest empty handed.

Asked post-match how he could pick his side up from the painful setback against the Hatters, Parker said: “At the moment it’s very difficult.

“Tonight and tomorrow is a day where there is a lot of looking at ceilings and feeling sorry for ourselves and wondering what could have been and how we could have affected things.

“But you need to react and you need to push this one aside, when I say push it aside, we need to look forward to Hull.

“We need to learn from Saturday. There were areas of our game that I didn’t like about us to be fair – areas where we need to improve and get better.

“But overall, we can’t affect this now. This is a result which has been done and dusted.

“We are angry, disappointed but we will get back on it on Monday.”

Asked whether it was key to use the hurtful emotions in a bid to progress, Parker replied: “Yeah, definitely. It’s a young team. You see that, a very young side.

“There’s loads of learning to be done. Of course, when you are fighting at that end of the table you don’t want too much learning to be done, you want it to be straightforward and that’s understanding in certain moments what is needed.

“On Saturday, we didn’t. I thought on Saturday at times we looked a little bit naïve and a little bit young in the ways, but we will learn from that.”

Cherries’ defeat saw them slip off top spot in the Championship, after Fulham overcame Bristol City 6-2 to leapfrog Parker’s men in the table.

The Dorset club host Hull City on Saturday.