Paul Clement has admitted that his Swansea City players are feeling "very flat" after squandering a one-goal lead away to Everton on Monday night.
The Swans were good value for their 35th-minute opener from Leroy Fer following a fairly positive start to the match at Goodison Park.
Any hope of a fourth win of the campaign soon faded, however, as former Swans star Gylfi Sigurdsson netted a top-class strike either side of goals from Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Wayne Rooney.
Clement could not hide his frustration following the 3-1 defeat, though he insists that the penalty Rooney converted should never have been awarded as Jonas Olsson tripped Jonjoe Kenny outside the box.
"The performance in the first half was encouraging until we gifted them a goal with the first penalty," he told BBC Sport. "We have to manage the game better and see it out. That gave them belief.
"We didn't defend it very well. It was a clumsy challenge and gave them a good bit of motivation coming into half time. I'm disappointed with the second goal - we were way too open. We had scored from a corner, but this time we played a short corner, then put a ball into the box and they broke from it.
"The third one summed our night up. Our defender should have been goal-side but he was outside the box, it should have been a free kick, not a penalty. It was clear.
"The mood in the dressing room is very flat. We're bottom of the table on 12 points. We've got to focus on getting to 15 points at the halfway mark. We can't look further ahead than Saturday's game against Crystal Palace."
Swansea have now lost 19 Premier League away games since the start of last season - more than any other club.
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