The County manager was left deflated and frustrated after an excellent opportunity to lift themselves out of the League Two relegation zone was spurned in alarming fashion.
Fuchs – who had engineered a min-revival of late – watched his men crash to a 4-1 home defeat to Accrington.
The Exiles clawed their way back to 1-1 after falling behind early on, but then fell apart after a litany of errors and poor decisions in the second-half, which included a daft red card for scorer Nathaniel Opoku.
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“We need to get better, we need to stop (the mistakes), because otherwise it will be a tough season, a long season,” admitted a clearly irritated Fuchs.
“As stupid as it sounds, I think that that game should go in one direction only, which was for Newport.
“But giving away those two cheap goals at the beginning of each half was just not good enough.
“It's hard to justify a game like this when you actually have most of the game, dominate the game, and then you walk off with a heavy defeat.
“With 11 men you’re on top of them and then you give away two gifts, basically. That’s very painful, because other than that, I don’t think Accrington had too much.
“Obviously, we tried to get a little bit more risk at the end of the game and it opened up spaces.”
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Fuchs’ assessment was not overblown as Newport looked to be in control at half-time after recovering from conceding a soft opening goal to Accrington’s Alex Henderson.
Newport levelled through Opoku’s header after some persistent work from the impressive Harrison Biggins - in his third game since his move from Shrewsbury – but collapsed under more errors after the break.
A terrible mix-up between goalkeeper Jordan Wright and defender Ryan Delaney enabled Isaac Sinclair to roll the ball into an empty net to leave County 2-1 down.
Opoku then made a senseless studs up high tackle on Paddy Madden to reduce his side to 10-men and the disasters didn’t end there.
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As Newport chased a point, more mistakes at the back allowed Madden and Isaac Heath to make it 4-1.
It meant what could have been a notable mood-changer – a victory that would have propelled them out of the bottom two – became, instead, Newport’s biggest home defeat of the season.
When Opoku equalised in the 35th minute, Newport were on top and seemed to be moving towards their third successive home victory.
But for all their positive attacking work, those glaring mistakes have left them still just one place off the bottom of the table.
Austrian Fuchs has claimed his team are not in a relegation battle, but with each game that passes that pretence becomes harder to maintain.
The upside is that the clubs above them were all unable to take advantage, meaning Newport can still lever themselves out of the drop zone by winning at Bristol Rovers – who are immediately above them – on Saturday.
Rovers lost 1-0 at MK Dons, whilst fellow strugglers Shrewsbury also went down 1-0 at Cambridge United.
Asked if the Severnside derby was now a season-defining match, Fuchs insisted: “I wouldn't go that far.
“It's definitely an important game for us. But there's still a lot of games to play and we just have to focus on ourselves.
“And we have shown many times before that we can compete against anybody.
“There is a lot at stake, there's a lot of pressure, and we'll see how the boys react.”
Accrington moved up to 14th after their biggest away win of the season and manager John Doolan said: “It was the will and desire that pleased me most – that belief.
“We’ve got a different mentality about us.”
