Melbourne Heart coach John Aloisi admits buck stops with him Sydney FC surged to third on the A-League table after a 2-0 win over Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park. John Aloisi's Melbourne Heart have succumbed to yet another loss. UNDER siege Melbourne Heart coach John Aloisi conceded "I'm the one the buck stops with" after his side slumped to a 2-0 loss to Sydney FC at AAMI on Friday night. A 27th minute penalty to Alessandro Del Piero and a Joel Chianese tap in just before half time was enough to consign the bottom-of-the-table Heart to a fourth loss in a row. The club remains winless this season and hasn't won since February 24, a streak that includes nine losses and two draws. Many of the 8941 in attendance last night voiced their displeasure after the game and a downcast Aloisi said he understood their frustrations. The coach did not hold back in his assessment of his side's display. The performance wasn't good enough. Not acceptable," Aloisi said. We started badly, looked nervy. My message at half time was 'we don't give up, we have to show our character and show the same intensity in the performances that we had done earlier on in the season'. And in the second half we pushed, but still we weren't good enough tonight. After that first half performance Aloisi said he questioned for the first time whether his message was getting through to his players. "But in the other games my message has been getting through very well, we just aren't being able to punish teams when we've been on top of them for long periods," he said. My tactics, I don't think they were wrong tonight, we set out to try and press them from the word go and we didn't do that well. I accept that I'm the one that the buck stops with and that the performance wasn't acceptable, but I wouldn't say the tactics weren't right, I think that the performance as a whole, not as individuals ... wasn't good enough. Heart next faces Newcastle at Hunter Stadium trying to overcome one of the worst away records in A-League history as pressure mounts on both coach and club. Aloisi has coached 14 games outside of Victoria for one draw and 13 losses. In those games the team has scored five goals and conceded 24. Heart has scored just twice in six games this season, both coming in the space of six minutes against Central Coast in Round 2. Aloisi said a by-product of that was a dip in his players' confidence. I think (that is) because we haven't been able to get the results that we have been expecting to get and we thought that the performances had been good enough to get those results. The boys looked anxious and nervous and couldn't really get in to the game. Sydney has had struggles of its own to start the season but coach Frank Farina said he felt his side's season was starting to turn the corner after consecutive wins.