PARDEW FINDS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT

Pardew - wants more from his side.

Charlton manager Alan Pardew admitted his side were "embarrassed at times" by newly-promoted Swansea after seeing the Addicks record a 2-0 Coca-Cola Championship win at The Valley.

The League One champions consistently passed their way around Pardew's side but lacked a cutting edge which their attractive football required.

Mark Hudson had headed the hosts ahead within 90 seconds of his debut and after Swans skipper Garry Monk was sent off with 20 minutes remaining Andy Gray added a second from another set-piece to flatter Charlton somewhat.

Pardew said: "When your captain scores in the first few minutes on his debut it doesn't get any better than that.

"We'd worked hard on winning the ball off them all week but we gave it away too easily.

"We were poor in central defence and up front last season and I felt that those were the two areas where we were stronger than Swansea.

"But they passed it well and at times they embarrassed us in midfield. I think they will be fine this season, no problem."

Pardew gave 16-year-old Jonjo Shelvey a start in midfield but saw the youngster fail to get into the game.

He was outclassed by the Swans' highly impressive trio of Ferrie Bodde, Leon Britton and Darren Pratley and Pardew was forced to send on Matt Holland after the break to try to stem the flow of attacks.

The manager explained: "Jonjo was caught in the headlights a bit.

"He was surrounded by three good passers and he was struggling a bit but he will learn a lot from that performance.

"When we play against teams who line up 4-4-2 you will see just how good this boy is."

Hameur Bouazza made his debut as a substitute after signing on loan from Fulham and Pardew also admitted that he is attempting to sign Southend midfielder Nicky Bailey.

He added: "Negotiations were going on for about four weeks with Fulham for Bouazza so it has been a frustrating wait.

"He is a player who is worth £2million-plus and we got him in on loan so I must thank Roy Hodgson for helping us out.

"I have to be patient with the two players who I am after but if I get them in then we will do better than most people think - which is about 11th."

Swansea boss Roberto Martinez insisted he was proud of his side's performance but was furious to concede two cheap goals.

Both Hudson and Gray were given free headers from set-pieces and Martinez knows that his side must improve on that side of their game.

He said: "The two goals we conceded are not good enough. They were simple goals at whatever level you play at so that was poor.

"Keeping the ball and creating chances is the hardest thing in football and we did that so I'm not concerned about conceding goals from set-pieces.

"That is easy to sort out. It is just concentration so we will iron that out.

"When you are strong in the game you have to score and they scored twice despite not being on top at any stage.

"That is a great skill to have but we will make sure that we will be competitive in our next game."