The Swans were beaten 3-1 by their Championship opponents in a game where they went in as favourites but were soundly beaten and really can have no complaints at the end of the game with the final scoreline.<\/p>\n
They were not helped by the early dismissal of Kyle Bartley in a poor piece of defending which changed the game plan very early on with Tom Carroll being sacrificed to make way for Federico Fernandez to return to a more traditional back four.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a disappointing result to go out of the cup,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Monk. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We wanted to get back on track, but unfortunately we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that today.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To go down to ten men early on didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help. All the preparation you do before the game kind of goes out of the window. We tried to re-structure to get to half-time to regroup, and we scored a good goal, but they got the equaliser before half-time.”<\/p>\n
That equaliser came just two minutes after Sigurdsson’s opener and it highlighted some of our defensive frailties quite clearly with the defenders being out-jumped and giving the attackers too much space in the penalty box.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We talked about how we were going to work in the second-half to keep in the game until towards the end, then maybe change formation to have a go. We were doing that, they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have too many dangerous situations.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But we conceded a poor second goal. It was poor marking at a set-piece, which is something you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to do at any level. The third then comes because we were pushing on.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in a difficult moment after the last two games, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important we come through it together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n