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Garry Monk wants more from Swansea players after Newcastle win

#INSERT type:image caption:Garry Monk has steered Swansea to their best-ever Premier League points total. END#

Swansea boss Garry Monk left St James' Park with a third successive victory on Tyneside and the club's best ever Premier League points total of 50 with four games still to play.

Newcastle took a 20th-minute lead when striker Ayoze Perez claimed his first goal since Dec. 28.

However, the home side conceded -- as they had looked like doing for some time -- from a set play when Nelson Oliveira headed home his first Swansea goal in first-half injury-time.

The visitors never looked back as Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jack Cork increased their lead before substitute Siem de Jong's late consolation.

But asked whether his players had exceeded expectations, Monk said: "No, I want more, always push for more.

"I just knew if I could get the players to commit to the hard work I have asked them to do from the start of the season that we could get to something like this.

"It's a hard road to get to there, but I am always the type that will demand more -- they know that, the players and everyone at the club, so my job now is to make sure that we finish the season with some more wins, if possible, and more points.

"There's no point in just beating the record, you want to try to surpass it and make it difficult for anyone to catch us or for us to surpass it again next season.

"That's what I'm trying to lay down now.''

Monk did, however, have a few words of comfort for beleaguered opposite number John Carver.

He added: "They have got quality players. Newcastle have the quality, for sure, and John is doing as good as job as he can and pushing the players, and they will be fine."

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