Tuesday 9 December 2014 12:25, UK
Garry Monk says Swansea will consider appealing against Lukasz Fabianski's straight red card in the 3-1 defeat at West Ham.
The goalkeeper was sent off in the 68th minute of Sunday's Premier League clash at Upton Park after rushing out of his area and colliding with Diafra Sakho, with referee Chris Foy deciding that he had denied the Hammers striker a clear goalscoring opportunity.
Replays show the West Ham player handled the ball shortly before he was touched by Fabianski, but Swansea boss Monk says the club will only appeal if they are confident the suspension won’t be extended.
"It’s obvious that he handballs it to get past Lukasz," he told Sky Sports.
"I think at that time the referee had already made his mind up and was adamant he was going to send him off anyway.
"Whether he saw the handball or not I don’t know, you’ll have to ask the referee. It’s interesting when you watch it. The handball obviously takes it past the keeper.
"Whether there’s an appeal or not, I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look at it. We’ll sit down and have a little think about it.
"If it was the cold hard facts then yes you would, but with the way it works nowadays we will have to have a bit more of a think about it."
Swansea took the lead when Wilfried Bony opened the scoring in the first half, but two headers from Andy Carroll and a late goal from Sakho saw West Ham turn the game around.
And Monk said his players deserved nothing following their worst display of the season so far.
He added: "We had our chances but we weren’t near the level of what we have been That’s the first time this season I can really say that.
Whether there’s an appeal or not, I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look at it. We’ll sit down and have a little think about it.
"In every other game we have played we have very much competed. We were very close, especially away from home, but we weren’t at the level we were. The defensive mistakes we made cost us goals.
"Funnily enough when we went down to 10 men we played our best spell of football. It shouldn’t have to take that for us to switch on and play our better football.
"Did we deserve anything today? For me, no.
"We just weren’t brave enough with the ball. We saw with the first goal that as soon as we play one or two-touch football, which we’ve done very well this season, that we can hurt teams.
"We showed that with our goal and it was about doing that more, but unfortunately we didn’t pick the right options with the ball or get on the ball enough and that played into their hands a little bit more.
"Our defending wasn’t as good as it has been, which I was disappointed with and the players are disappointed with.
"The first goal was a very good cross, but for the second goal we lost the striker in the box, which you can never do against any team, but especially against a player like Andy Carroll."
