Alan Sheehan | We have to be clinical and stop leaving points behind

Head coach Alan Sheehan admitted his Swansea City side need to find a ruthless edge in both boxes to make sure they make the most of the positive positions they get into, following a 2-1 defeat at Preston North End.

An outstanding early goal from Thierry Small gave North End the lead, and Milutin Osmajic doubled their lead five minutes into the second half from a hopeful punt downfield.

Adam Idah, Liam Cullen and Cameron Burgess all had chances for the Swans, who also saw two strong penalty shouts waved away, before Jisung Eom’s excellent strike halved the deficit with 10 minutes to go.

But the visitors could not salvage a point, and Sheehan acknowledged there were similar frustrations to the weekend draw at Charlton where his side have failed to make the most of prolonged periods of control and positive play.

“It is very disappointing, it has a lot of similarities to the Charlton game,” he said.

“On another day you feel the outcome could have been different.

“We did not start the game particularly well, they score a worldie and we are on the back foot and have to react.

“Then it’s one long ball early in the second half that we don’t deal with and we find ourselves 2-0 down.

“You cannot afford to do that in the Championship, you cannot shoot yourself in the foot.

“But in terms of creating chances, enough to win the game, I think we have. We know that is different from taking them and winning the game and that’s the disappointing thing.

“We wanted to send the fans home happy, but we have had two games in a row now where we had chances to win. We just need to find that clinical edge because we are leaving some points behind us.”