Luton Town head coach Jack Wilshere has told fans "be angry with me" after a sixth successive away defeat.
Their 1-0 loss to strugglers Wigan saw the Hatters drop a place to ninth, four points adrift of the top six with one game in hand.
Luton fans last saw a victory away from Kenilworth Road against Stockport County at the beginning of November. The last away point was a draw at Leyton Orient on 9 December.
Wilshere told BBC Three Counties Radio: "The players care, that's why they go over and try and have a conversation, try and thank them for their support. It's difficult I know, and I completely understand the fans' point of view.
"My message to them is point their anger towards me. I'm their manager and head coach and I make the decisions."
Wilshere added: "The players are very low and really disappointed and the fans have every right to be angry with the results, and the support they give and the distances they travel. We have to be better - I have to be better."
The former Arsenal and England midfielder switched to a 4-2-4 formation at times in the first half against Wigan to try and change their miserable run of form on the road.
"We wanted to try something different. Clearly what we've been trying away from home hasn't been working," he explained.
"We wanted to have a different type of threat, use what we've got in the building, with two nines that have presence, that can run behind, but we didn't do it.
"We spoke about their high line, but we couldn't execute it well enough, and we'll have to go back to the drawing board because that didn't work either."
Luton's four away wins from 16 matches so far contrasts to nine wins and four draws at home, and Wilshere admits he is having to do a lot of soul-searching to understand why.
He said: "It feels like we lack a threat. We have to work really hard to get up the pitch, and when we do we don't threaten the goal enough. Maybe it's a belief or a confidence thing.
"We've got some players who've played at a higher level than this, that you think we've got enough characters and enough leaders in my opinion to drag us through."
"There's pressure all around now. We all have to be able to stand up and face that."