Premier League: Garry Monk regrets individual errors after Chelsea crush Swansea

Garry Monk lamented the "horrible mistakes" that led to Swansea's 5-0 mauling by Chelsea at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday.

Gylfi Sigurdsson gave away possession within seconds of the kick-off leading to Oscar's first-minute opening goal, and after Diego Costa made it 2-0, Federico Fernandez's misplaced pass gave him an easy third.

The Swans boss felt those uncharacteristic errors would inevitably be punished by league leaders Chelsea - and called on his players to not accept the lowly standards.

"We made some horrible mistakes and were punished very heavily,"  Monk said. "We got exactly what we deserved, it wasn’t good. It was one of our worst – if not the worst – performance of our the season and that’s disappointing because we came here with some confidence.

It was a horrible first 45 minutes for us, everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. We got punished. We don’t accept those standards.

"It was a horrible first 45 minutes for us, everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. We got punished. We don’t accept those standards. The players know that but results are my responsibility and I take full responsibility for this.

"We put on the worst kind of performance that we could do.

"We always knew Chelsea are very good but you can’t start a game the way we did and continue like it."

Pride

Monk accepted that his team's four-goal deficit at half-time made the second half a case of redeeming some dignity.

"The game had gone at 4-0 - I didn’t use those words but I think you know that if you’ve been in those positions," he said. "It’s about creating a bit of pride for yourself and trying to represent the identity of the club and the way of working that I’ve put to the players, and to not accept what we’ve just done.

"I felt we accepted them in the first half and that was our downfall but in the second half, for our fans, we had to put a bit of pride back into the performance.

"It’s disappointing because you can’t quite see those mistakes coming because we’ve been performing very well this season. Unfortunately when you make those mistakes you get punished, especially against a very good team like Chelsea."