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Swansea boss Monk apologises to Mourinho for limp performance

Swansea City boss Garry Monk was left disappointed with their 5-0 home rout by Chelsea.

Monk later apologised for a performance which never recovered from Gylfi Sigurdsson losing possession inside the first minute for Oscar to open the scoring. Oscar and Diego Costa both scored twice in the first half to put Chelsea in cruise control before substitute Andre Schurrle grabbed a fifth goal 11 minutes from time.

"I said sorry to Jose that I couldn't give him a game today," Monk said.

"It was a horrible performance and the first 45 minutes was our worst of the season.

"It's difficult to make those mistakes continuously and against a Chelsea side like that it magnifies it even more.

"We didn't give fans the performance we wanted and I can only apologise because it's my team and I take full responsibility for that."

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