Players must carry the can for results, insists Darling

HARRY Darling insists players must shoulder the responsibility for Swansea City’s poor results.

Swansea delivered a disappointing performance at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday, with Emmanual Latte Lath netting in each half to earn a 2-0 win for Middlesbrough.

Head coach Luke Williams was incandescent with anger after the match. He has overseen a run of just one win in Swansea’s last six matches, the 2-0 victory over South Wales derby rivals Cardiff City.

And Darling admits Swansea need to get back to the level of performance they showed in the win over Cardiff quickly.

“The gaffer is brilliant with us, he gives us every bit of detail we need to perform on a game day and we need to start repaying him with better performances because they haven’t been good enough,” centre-back Darling admitted after the poor defeat on Teesside.

“We’ve got two home games next so we really need to give performances that the fans and gaffer can be proud of.

“They probably haven’t seen that since the Cardiff game, and that’s something we need to do because we know it’s not been good enough and we’ve conceded two sloppy goals to lose here.

“It was one of those games where there wasn’t a lot of intensity to it and we’ve got to bring that to the game.

“That’s something we haven’t in the last couple of games, and it’s a really disappointing result.

“We need to be more clinical at the top of the pitch, make the most of our crossing opportunities and create better chances for our strikers.

“I think that really lets us down, but the goals we conceded were sloppy.

“If you concede goals like that, you will always give yourself an uphill task.”