Bob Bradley admits he expected a better start to his career at Swansea

Swansea manager Bob Bradley admitted he expected his side to have picked up more points from his first four matches in charge.

The Swans suffered their third defeat in four games under Bradley thanks to a 3-1 home defeat to Manchester United on Sunday, leaving them firmly in the relegation zone heading into the international break.

And Bradley thinks there is still a lot of hard work to do if his side are to stay in the top-flight.

"I would have hoped that in the early games that we could have taken some more points, and we had some chances," Bradley told Sky Sports.

"But I certainly understand, and I've said it many times, that in the Premier League you have to fight every week and you can't take anything for granted.

"The players in the dressing room know that. They've had the experiences so we are all on the same page but the work to get this where it needs to be has to continue in the right way."

Swansea were three goals down inside 33 minutes at the Liberty Stadium with Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic grabbing the goals for the visitors.

Mike van der Hoorn pulled a goal back in what was a better second-half performance from the hosts but the result leaves them without a win in 10 matches in all competitions.

"We can't take big positives but we still understand there's a lot of work to be done and we've got to continue to try to stay strong," Bradley added.

"It's been a very difficult stretch, everybody knows that but there's got to be a way that we can fight through it. We have to improve in many parts of the game and we don't make any excuses. We continue to show up every day and we understand the work that needs to be done.

"You do many things throughout the week but what really needs to happen now is we need to get the reinforcement of some positive results.

"We thought going into this match we could keep things tight and make it difficult for them in terms of playing through us. Again when you go behind, we still seemed to lose some steam at that point and the first-half puts us in a terrible position."

Swansea were booed off at half-time and full-time by their own fans, who also reportedly directed chants towards the club's owners.

And Bradley wants his players to get the club's fans back on side with positive results.

He said: "In the first-half we brought it [the atmosphere] on ourselves.

"We work very hard all week to prepare for a big match and we have to accept that when we fall behind by three goals at half-time the fans are not going to be satisfied. Neither are we.

"The second-half shows that as a group we are not willing to give up at all but we've got to prove to our fans that we can get results."