Russell Martin demands improvement from Swansea City stars despite Coventry City win and hails striker for offering 'new dimension'

Russell Martin admits he was disappointed by the way his young Swansea City side saw out their 3-1 win over Coventry City on Saturday, and says they need to improve their game management over the coming weeks if they are to end the current campaign on a high.

The Swans raced away into a 3-0 lead shortly after half-time at the Swansea.com Stadium, but allowed the visitors plenty of opportunities to get back into the game.

Mark Robins' men did eventually muster up a consolation five minutes from time after spurning a flurry of good chances, and on another day may well have set up a far nervier finish.

Martin was keen not to be too negative about his team's performance, particularly given that the result secured back-to-back Championship wins, but nevertheless struggled to hide his disappointment at certain aspects of the performance.

"I'm really pleased with the result," he said. "Absolutely loved the first half performance. Didn't particularly enjoy the second half performance. But we have a fairly young team that's not been in the position of being 3-0 up very often.

"We didn't manage the game well enough in the second half. I don't get overly emotional about results, but I do about performances.

"Performing well, performing consistently leads to results in the end. We have to do better than we did in the second half.

"So it's left me feeling probably not as positive about the whole thing as I probably should do. We have a lot of work to do. A lot of work to do. I'm extremely proud of the way they played in the first half. to play the way we do takes huge courage.

"We limited Coventry to one shot and that was a mistake from us.

"But the last few minutes of the first half there was some real sloppiness creeping in and it