Phil Sumbler
Swansea City were in generous mood again this afternoon at the Swansea.com stadium as they gifted their visitors a two goal lead inside the first half but at the end of the game Swans boss Russell Martin was under no doubt that he felt the Swans should have won the game.
Late goals in each half from Ryan Manning and Joel Piroe earned the Swans a point but it was the two defensive lapses in the first half that was playing on the mind of Russell Martin when he spoke to the press at the end of the game.
Two people do not do their detail on two set-pieces and it hurts us,” Martin said at the end of the game.
“We concede too many poor goals at the moment. I think we are conceding one of lowest numbers of shots in the league but we are letting goals in from individual errors.
“The guys ran so hard and gave so much, and on another day maybe we win, but we cannot give teams a head start like that.
“It takes a big courage to come back in the way the players did, we should have won the game. I don’t think anyone can disagree with that – it was such a dominant performance.
“I think you have to appreciate how difficult it is when you go 2-0 down, to then avoid it becoming a game of basketball and going 3-0 down.
“We are close to being the team everyone wants us to be.
“We have lost two games in 10, we are very competitive at this level. But we want to be more than competitive – we want to really affect the league.”
