Monk Felt Sickened After Home Defeat vs Spurs

Swansea City Garry Monk said today’s 2-1 defeat at home against Spurs was ‘sickening’ after an individual error allowed the visitors to win the game late on.

After Kane opened the scoring after just 3 minutes, heading in a corner from the right, the Swans struggled to get going in the first half, but they still managed to create a few chances for Bony to squander.

There was a big improvement in the second half, and Bony found the net just a couple of minutes after the restart. From then on, the Swans took control but as they’ve been in recent games, they lacked a clinical edge and couldn’t make the most of the opportunities and good attacking areas they got themselves into.

Spurs could manage a couple of counter attacks and a flurry of corners from which they looked threatening having scored from one early on, but a point looked like the least that the Swans would take from the game.

That was until substitute Jazz Richards decided to hold on to the ball near his own by-line rather than clearing the danger straight away. After delaying a clearance, he was under pressure, and his ball out fell straight to a Spurs player, and Eriksen curled a low shot past Tremmel to seal the three points.

Monk admitted that his side weren’t clinical enough in front of goal. His Swansea team really should have took the lead after equalising:

“I couldn’t see it coming and it’s sickening,”

“Two individual errors have cost us two goals and cost us a result.

“We created enough chances to score a number of goals and we weren’t clinical enough.

“But it’s a case of us losing it rather than Tottenham winning it – and how we’ve come away with nothing is hard to take.

“They had a few counter attacks where they could have been a threat but nothing major came from them and after we regained momentum it was one-way traffic after gifting them the first goal; if it had been a boxing match they would have called it off.

“But we have spoken about killing sides when we are in those situations and being ruthless – we weren’t and it’s come back to haunt us with two goals from two individual mistakes.”