ARGYLE manager Ian Holloway was left in a state of shock after his team surrendered a lead to lose 2-1 against Sheffield Wednesday at Home Park

A Sylvan Ebanks-Blake penalty gave the Pilgrims the lead early in the second-half, but the game was turned on its head by quick-fire strikes from Akpo Sodje and Burton O'Brien.

"It was a bad day at the office. I never expected it and didn't see it coming," said Ollie.

"We gained the ascendancy in the second-half. I thought it would be one of our wide men breaking forward that would win us the game.

"We got a goal, thoroughly deserved it and were much the better team. We had 16 shots at goal to their six. Unfortunately, we have missed the target 12 times, which is not good enough.

"We got in the lead and I was sat there feeling pretty comfortable because we were doing an awful lot of things right."

The game turned on a misjudgment from Hungarian defender Krisztián Timár and the breakaway goal by O'Brien, which started from an Argyle corner.

The end result was a repeat of last season's 2-1 defeat against the Owls, who are becoming somewhat unwelcome visitors to Home Park.

Ollie said: "We faced a throw in a situation where one of my defenders suddenly, crazily, thinks it is going out. Big Krisztián [Timár] thought it was going out and all he had to do was step forward, put his left-foot through it and kick it towards Saltash, and I think we would have won the game.

"Their centre-forward [Sodje] got his foot to it and whipped it in the top corner. Before you know it the whole situation had changed and my lads tried too hard to win the game, just like we did last year.

"It was a set-piece we rehearsed and got a free header at goal, and then one of their blokes goes up the other end and scores, so I am absolutely flabbergasted. To be fair, if you play like we did, you deserve at least one point, if not all three.

"It is infuriating. Their fella ran from his own box. The number eight was stood on the edge of his box, so where was everybody?

"I am sick and fed up with Sheffield Wednesday because they did that last year, but you have to be resilient, strong and keep doing the same things.

"We went up to Preston, and they have been one hell of an organization for the last five years, and we were almost the favourites. We could not deal with it and they were better than us on the day.

"Today, I can't say Sheffield Wednesday were better than us but the facts are two to them and one to us, and we have got to deal with it."