Liam Rosenior felt Hull’s 1-0 home defeat to Swansea was deserved after they dropped out of the Sky Bet Championship’s top six.
Liam Cullen scored after 10 minutes as the Swans pulled further away from the relegation zone by beating a Hull side who lacked the final pass to open up their opponents.
Rosenior admitted: “We didn’t deserve anything today. One of the few times I can say that since I’ve been here.
“When you do that, you give the opposition momentum. Credit to Swansea, we gave them a leg up and they won the game.”
Swansea benefited from Cullen’s free run into the area and Rosenior admitted his players needed to be more astute in that kind of situation.
He said: “If we mark the player properly we don’t get blocked. That’s the things we work on in training.
“One, our performance wasn’t good enough by our standards, and two, we’ve cost ourselves a point.
“We gave the ball away cheaply and when you do that you give the opposition energy, you give them oxygen.
“I told (the players) what we have to improve on. We have to bounce back from the setbacks. We need to learn on the job.”
Cullen got the only goal of the game when he ran into the Hull area to meet a low corner with a pinpoint shot which nestled in the bottom-left corner of the goal.
Hull looked short of the ideas which could have unlocked the determined defending of Swansea and their best chance fell to second-half substitute Billy Sharp.
The forward got on the end of a long pass from Ozan Turfan and prodded the ball past onrushing goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, only to see Nathan Wood race back to clear short of the goal-line.
Turfan had headed straight at Rushworth when the ball fell to him unmarked in the Swansea area in a first half where the Tigers lacked the nous to unlock the visitors’ defence.
Cullen could have doubled his tally in the second half only to shoot wide when well-placed.
Luke Williams felt his side deserved to take the win and also praised the work of assistant Alan Sheehan on set-pieces after Swansea claimed the winner from a well-worked corner routine.
Williams said: “I think the players deserved that, a fantastic performance and even more fantastic result.
“There are quite a few things, the openings that we made were very deliberate.
“I loved the work-of-art set-piece, and the players delivered on that and scored.
“When you watch Alan go to work on a set-piece and then see the players deliver on that it’s a privilege.
“We scored a goal away from home against a very good team and the back-line led us well, they kept us aggressive.”
Williams praised Cullen for the way he had come into the team in place of Jerry Yates to score the only goal.
“Liam has come in said ‘I need to do the same level of work that Jerry has done and take my chance’.
“We have lovely competition between these two players, it’s good to develop this kind of rivalry within the team.
“I really felt a strong positive energy in the changing room going into this game and we played like we believed.”
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