We have to work as a team, says Swansea City's Alan Tate
ALAN Tate says Swansea City were beaten by Everton because they didn't play as a team.
Swansea were second best from start to finish against the Toffees, who left the Liberty with a deserved 3-0 win.
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Alan Tate clears against Everton
The visitors were ahead after 22 minutes when Victor Anichebe collected Marouane Fellaini's knock down and fired past Michel Vorm.
That lead was doubled before half-time as Kevin Mirallas headed home after Vorm tipped his first effort onto the bar.
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And late on Everton wrapped up victory through Fellaini, whose header deflected off Ashley Williams and into the net.
"It was disappointing, but that's what happens if you play as a group of individuals rather than as a team," said Tate.
"We haven't got the players Everton have.
"We have gone away from the team aspect which made us good last season.
"We need to get back to playing as a team, otherwise we're going to struggle like that every week.
"If people are going to play individually we may as well pack up now."
With Chico Flores still suspended, Tate partnered Ashley Williams in central defence.
Williams had been struggling with an ankle injury picked up at Aston Villa, while teenager Ben Davies continued at left-back.
Tate admitted Swansea did not defend well enough, but believes the blame for that rests with the whole team.
"We were more concerned with scoring goals than we were about stopping them at the other end," said Tate. "We were gung-ho. Everyone was going forwards, leaving the back four to defend by themselves.
"You can't do that in any league, let alone this league.
"We can't get away from the fact that defensively we weren't good enough — that's not just the back four, it's the whole team.
"They played the ball forward to two big lads. We didn't have people getting around them and coming in from the front.
"It's a team game and we certainly weren't a team on Saturday."
Swansea struggled to cope with Everton's strapping forward line of Fellaini and Anichebe.
They conceded a glut of cheap free-kicks that resulted in a steady stream of balls pumped into Michel Vorm's area.
"Some of the decisions given against us were soft," said Tate. "There were fouls against us that weren't given.
"That didn't help, but the first thing you need is a bit of heart and to defend as a team."
Tate was withdrawn in the second half as Ki Sung -Yueng dropped into an unfamiliar defensive roll to give Swansea a more attacking threat.
But any hopes of taking something from the game were effectively ended on 58 minutes when Nathan Dyer was sent off for two bookable offences.
"The gaffer said he might make a defensive change at half-time," added Tate.
"I think his thoughts were to get Ki on the ball and get him moving forwards from the back.
"You can't legislate for the sending off.
"It was two yellow cards. I didn't see the first one, but the second one was a yellow."
Swans winger Pablo Hernandez is to have a scan on the knee injury which forced him off on Saturday and is a doubt for tomorrow's Capital One Cup trip to Crawley Town.
Nathan Dyer will miss the tie through suspension after his sending off on Saturday, with Flores serving the final game of his three-match ban.
Comments
by Hadoken4543
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 6:25PM
“Siddy reading your last few comments makes you look slightly mentally ill.
http://tinyurl.com/d85wkwn
Try getting a job and a life, you wont be such a miserable loser then.
Sorry to hear you blew a 2 goal lead against Crystal palace and then lost it, but Cardiff are a champ league club, even when you sold your soul and colours to a rich asian.
haha”
by siddysod
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 4:16PM
“your going down down down”
by jc205
Monday, September 24 2012, 7:14PM
“I cant understand the way the team was changed...only two players were not available from the team that thrashed QPR.Flores suspended, Taylor injured.....and both were badly missed...so why leave out Britton and Dyer, especially against a team we have never beaten. I think Tate played poorly ,and was slow. The entire defence was a fault for the second goal all
too far up field,and so slow getting back...I agree with hacker_jack watching all our players stopped dead on tne 18 yard line...and Vorm was superb in pushing it up against the bar but had no help with the rebound...but take out the first 30 minutes of the game and we did get better so dont give up yet....dont forget Everton were the only team last season who stopped us playing our passing football.”
by slagheap
Monday, September 24 2012, 6:32PM
“Hadoken4543 I agree we have lost our core values of last year,and I agree we need to get back to our posession football and once again become hard to beat.I am sure ML knows what he is doing he just needs to refine the blueprint handed down to him.However I do disagree with your evaluation of the players in compare to players out.
Allen compared to Ki nobody knows yet he hasnt played much
Sinclair compared to Hurnandez same as above
Caulker compared to Flores sorry definately not as good as Caulker
Gylfi compared to Michu sorry Michu is not as good an all round player as Gylfi
Taylor who is a major loss compared to Davies well it would be unfair to critisise the youngster but not as good as Taylor.
BR compared to ML nobody knows realy but as far as I am concerned BR”
by Hadoken4543
Monday, September 24 2012, 6:00PM
“lets compare what we lost and gained.
Lost Joe Allen, gained Korean international.
Conclusion, give or take, it should be a solid replacement.
Lost Scott Sinclair, gained spanish international.
Conclusion, give or take, it should a solid replacement.
Lost Caulker, gained Chico Flores.
Conclusion, give or take, it should be a solid replacement.
Lost Gylfi, gained michu.
Conclusion, give or take, it should be a solid replacement.
Lost neil Taylor.
This is a definte hole in our game as none of the replacements have had time to prove if they are worthy and Neil Taylor is a cracking player, even Harry Rednapp said so.
Lost brendan, gained ML, BR was not a proven success when he came here and he is not having the best of time in merseyside at the moment so it remains to be seen.
So from what I can see, if ML was brought in to continue what we have and refine we should be MORE THAN able to do what we did last year at the very least. Given he was one of the best players around, I think its safe to say he has a clue about footy.
The deal was we keep the same style of footy and add some punch to it, I hope we do not divert from this, I suggest ML and co study the DVDS from last year, consult with the core team like taylor, jenkins, curtis about why it worked and get back to making that style work before they change anything else because without that we are dead as team, we all know we did as well as we did because of that style and we should not divert.
Add a bit more attack sure, but do not break the core aspect.”
by trncjack
Monday, September 24 2012, 4:54PM
“Has this anything to do with the new boss, We seem to have dumped tiki taka ,and every thing that was good about our football last season, we are playing long balls which are being gobled up by the opposition , br had a tactic of gettng the ball back within 7 seconds , now there is no covering back by our players , the new guys are not any better than what we had last season, New managers have a problem with not keeping too past players and tactics, always wanting to do it their way, We must get back to what we do best , pass and move pass and move, other wise we are only going one way. AS for team selection , what was ml thinking about in dropping Dyer , its no wonder he lost it when coming on, As for hernandez ,we will give him the benfit of the dowt with his knock on the knee , for not once taking on his man,”
by slagheap
Monday, September 24 2012, 4:30PM
“I said it in these forums before a ball was kicked this season that we would realy struggle,we have lost half of last years team,replaced them with players who are not as good.We have a new manager who as changed our style as well.Put it all in the mix and we have a tough season ahead of us.I would like us go back to the Swansalona style where we ground teams down with our posession football at least we looked solid playing that style.”
by Hadoken4543
Monday, September 24 2012, 2:35PM
“Cant believe the run we are having at the moment.
Dyer gets sent off, chico gets sent off, williams now seems to be making stupid mistakes every game that are costing us direct goals or risking him getting sent off, taylor broke his ankle, hernandez has a bad knee, bartley is injured in his first game and our 5.5 million signing had to play in a position he has never played in before which defeats the whole point of him, leon has the flu, seriously you cant make this up and I am sure there are a few things I missed.
Sort it out SCFC before we blow this cushion. I do not expect to win at Stoke, but I would settle for a draw, or even a loss if at least the loss showed we have our game back.
At the moment the state of the team is relegation material. Thats not cos we lost two games, its the manner in which we lost. Why has a team that had the best pass rate in the game no longer able to keep hold of the ball.
Time to nip this in the bud now...”
by hacker_jack
Monday, September 24 2012, 1:31PM
“muld00ns - There is NO loan market until January. Free agents only until then.”
by Lezz_T
Monday, September 24 2012, 1:20PM
“Can't remember the last time I saw the Swans so totally outplayed, we couldn't complain if Everton had scored 6.
We need to bring in another prem quality central defender and full back for cover, the back 4 Saturday wouldn't be good enough for the Championship and without Britton and Allen they weren't being protected by the midfield as they have been in the past.”