Preston manager Alex Neil backed his keeper after the loss, saying that he needs to move on from the error.
"As a professional player you know when you've made an error, you've just got to let it go - there is nothing you can do about it now." he said after the game.
"Declan needs to put it to the back of his mind and move on. We are certainly not going to make a scapegoat of him, he has made a mistake and it has cost us the first goal.
"We can go and repair that by maybe getting the next goal which we didn't do."
The fans on the other hand, weren't so understanding, and took to social media to express their frustrations.
"Thank you for ruining my Christmas Declan Rudd and you deserve every bit of abuse you receive," one comment read.
"Thousands of pounds per week. Anyone who offers sympathy is clueless. None from me."
