Ipswich Town 2-5 Bolton Wanderers: Paul Cook shoulders blame for defeat

Dapo Afolayan has netted five goals for Bolton in all competitions this season

Ipswich Town boss Paul Cook took responsibility for his side's 5-2 home defeat by Bolton Wanderers, which he described as "probably the lowest point" of his career.

The Blues are yet to win in seven games in all competitions this season, with a host of boos greeting the final whistle at Portman Road.

Cook signed 19 players this summer following a takeover of the club in April.

"As a manager like myself, who I'd like to call experienced now, it is on me," he told BBC Radio Suffolk. "This is my job.

"It is an honour to manage clubs like this and to get better and to where you want to be, you have to feel pain. We certainly felt pain today."

Ipswich took an early lead through Macauley Bonne's fifth-minute goal, but Bolton came back to lead 2-1 as Dapo Afolayan equalised and Eoin Doyle scored from the penalty spot after Afolayan was brought down by Kane Vincent-Young.

The hosts levelled on the half-hour mark through an own goal by Wanderers defender Ricardo Santos but Afolayan put the visitors 3-2 up in first-half stoppage time.

Josh Sheehan and George Johnston added goals in the second half to lift Bolton up to third in League One.

Ipswich, meanwhile, lie 22nd in the table and former Portsmouth and Wigan boss Cook accepted the supporters' show of frustration at full-time.

"We have to offer our fans more and I shoulder all that," Cook added. "It is what I have been brought in to do and what I have done at other clubs.

"It is probably the lowest point of my career. I will take that like a man. My job is to solve problems and that is something we will work hard to do."