Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert says they paid for slack finishing in their Capital One Cup defeat to Leyton Orient.
Darren Bent, starting a game for Villa for the first time since the final day of the 2012/13 season, was chief culprit as he missed in each half with only the goalkeeper to beat.
Joe Cole's perfectly-weighted pass behind the Orient defence sent Bent through down the right-hand side of the penalty area but his shot across Gary Woods flicked off the goalkeeper's legs and wide of the far post.
Then moments before Romain Vincelot's 87th-minute winner, the striker fired wide from a similar position after latching on to a superb 35-yard pass from centre-half Philippe Senderos.
''We had enough chances but never took them,'' said Villa boss Lambert. ''When you don't take chances, at any level of football, then you get punished. You don't have a divine right to beat any team.
''Darren is deadly in those situations and on another night they would have gone in. But like I said, if you don't take chances things like that happen.''
