Russell Martin was critical of many aspects of his side’s display, with the body language of the players and inconsistency in performance particularly in the spotlight.<\/p>\n
The Swans boss witnessed another depressing away defeat and whilst he took some blame for his own part in the loss, it was the same old words from the former MK Dons manager which are starting to wear a bit thin.<\/p>\n
He spoke about the mentality and body language not being good enough in his post match interview, but insisted that the instructions and preparations for the players ensures there is no “ambiguity or grey areas” for them when they cross the white line.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately that isn’t what we are seeing on the pitch and there is clear a discord between those plans and what happens on matchday. And he has to find the answers quickly to solve it.<\/p>\n
Sheffield United created numerous chances and only poor finishing prevented a seriously damaging defeat, as bad as 4-0 already was.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel sorry for the fans who have travelled in challenging circumstances and been brilliant throughout the game,\u201d Martin told Wales Online.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey deserve better than what we are giving them away from home at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made the same mistakes again today. We have started the game so slowly, which is something we have spoken about and something we have worked on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game is over after 20 minutes, and the thing that frustrates me is we have a lot of young men who are in the process of trying to improve and learn, but we are not learning quick enough, especially away from home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe gap between us at our best and at our worst is far too big. The gap between us at home and us away from home is too big, and that is my fault and I have to sort that out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to learn and improve quickly. We stuck at it in the second half at least, which is not easy to do in that sort of atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that first 25 minutes the details were just not good enough, and that should not be the case because there is no ambiguity or grey area about what we are trying to do and what we want to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have said to the players that those details have totally cost us, and we have to find a way to learn from it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there were times today our mentality was wrong, we are looking round at each other, our body language\u2026 we have to stick together much better than that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no blame culture here, we have to improve as a collective and learn as a group and make sure we are better in our next game because it is tremendously hurtful to have days like this.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to make sure the pain we feel on days like this is worth it in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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