Garry Monk welcomes improved Swansea display against Spurs

Garry Monk praised his Swansea side for rekindling their passion and desire in their 2-2 draw at Tottenham.

Swansea, winless in their four previous games, were twice pegged back at the Liberty Stadium as a free-kick in each half from Christian Eriksen earned Spurs a point on the road.

The hosts, however, ended their five-week wait for a goal from open play as Andre Ayew, and then a Harry Kane own-goal put them in front twice. And Monk felt it was a much-improved performance from last weekend's 3-1 defeat at Southampton.

"We were much more like ourselves," Monk said. "We talked all week about getting back to our level, and you could see the passion and the desire we had to win the game was massive.

"We have performed fantastically in many games already this season, but we've had a couple where we were well below our standards.

"According to some people, a three-game run is a blip, but I know my players have quality.

"It's just a question of getting that out of them on a consistent basis. We saw it here and hopefully now we can go from strength to strength."

Despite never leading in the game, Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino claimed his side threw away the three points in south Wales.

Asked for his thoughts on Pochettino's view, Monk replied: "They were never in the lead, so I don't know how.

"Without the two free-kicks, I think we would have won the game and we certainly didn't deserve to lose it.

"It took an incredible save [from Hugo Lloris] at the end to deny Fede [Fernandez] a winner, and I thought overall we performed very well."