Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson expressed his frustration as his side fell to their third Premier League defeat of the season at Newcastle.
Gabriel Obertan scored the only goal of the game 18 minutes from time as Alan Pardew's side secured their first win of the campaign.
City had their chances, though, as Matty James spurned the best one in the first half before the visitors threw everything at the hosts late on but to no avail.
"It is disappointing to come away with nothing. That's got to be the overriding summary of the match," said Pearson, after the game at St James' Park.
"We have had enough promising situations and, at times, our quality let us down in that final third.
"We have been pretty good so far this season in that regard. If you are not creating, or taking, your chances it is important to keep a clean sheet, and we have been done on the counter-attack from what was a very promising situation ourselves.
"It's frustrating, there's no doubt about that."
The game kicked-off an hour later than planned due to safety concerns over the new big screen inside the stadium that had come loose in the wind.
Pearson, though, said the delay had no effect on his players.
"I wouldn't have thought so. Both sets of players seemed very relaxed about it. It was only an hour," said Pearson. "There is a tendency to try to put added weight on circumstances like that."
Once the game did get under way, it was a pretty scrappy affair in the first half as Pearson set out his side in a 4-1-4-1 formation. They improved in the second, following the introduction of Jamie Vardy and David Nugent.
But it was during their best spell of the game that they went behind as Obertan finished off a counter-attack, firing home from outside the box.
"Although we weren't particularly expansive in the first half, I thought we contained them pretty well and still looked relatively dangerous," said Pearson. "We felt we were just not quite able to find the rhythm we have had in previous games. Having said that, we looked pretty comfortable.
"Their best chances, in general, came from counter attacks."
