Coleraine manager Dean Shiels says his players need to be smarter in how they see out games after a dramatic 2-2 draw with Portadown on Tuesday.

Rhyss Campbell and Matthew Shevlin gave Coleraine a two-goal lead but Ryan Mayse pulled one back before Dougie Wilson netted a 96th-minute equaliser at Shamrock Park.

“When you concede in the last second it is massively disappointing,” said Shiels.

“Especially when we had a free-kick high up the pitch with one minute to go. It’s disappointing but it’s one game and we have to learn from it and learn quickly.

“When you are 2-0 up away from you have to be smarter and we have to manage the game better.”

The result leaves Coleraine sixth in the Irish Premiership table and Shiels says there are positives to take despite the manner of the draw.

“I think we showed really good, positive play when we passed the ball. We shifted Portadown around and we found spaces,” added Shiels, who is in his first season in charge at Coleraine.

“We stopped doing that when they scored their first goal. We’re young, naive and we dropped deep.

“We invited Portadown onto us, which was the wrong thing to do. We kept giving it back and it’s a tough place to come.

“They made it really difficult for us in that last period and we didn’t deal with it in the correct way.”