STEVE McCLAREN thinks that his second Premier League game as Newcastle United head coach taught him nothing when Swansea City comfortably claimed three points at the Liberty Stadium yesterday.

McClaren was a figure of frustration in the directors’ box and then his technical area as the Swans scored a goal early in each half through Bafetimbi Gomis and then Andre Ayew to secure a routine 2-0 win.

Sandwiched between those was the stupid sending-off of full-back Daryl Janmaat for two bookable offences, which left Newcastle playing with ten men for the closing stages of the first half and the entire second period.

McClaren said: “We have learned nothing. We learned so much last week against Southampton and we have learned nothing at Swansea; only that we need to keep 11 players on the field because you can’t do that in the Premier League against a good Swansea team.

“Then we lost Moussa Sissoko as well with a groin problem, so we had a mountain to climb. You can’t judge us on this game or performance. It was a waste of a game for us. We need to learn about individual players can do and this didn’t help us to do that.”

Janmaat had already been booked for a strong challenge on the lively Ecuador winger Jefferson Montero when he then tugged at the shirt of the same player four minutes before the break. It seemed a ridiculous moment of madness from the Dutchman, who was deep in the Swansea half at the time.

McClaren said: “I thought it was harsh. I thought it was a long way from goal. OK Daryl had made his presence known, it was a little tug and I think the referee (Mike Jones) could have been lenient. You can’t control it, he gave it. Then from then on it was very difficult.

“I think the first one you could see he had made his intentions clear. If you have to learn anything from this it is emotional control. That has cost us. That is probably the only lesson we learn here.”

Swansea boss Garry Monk felt Janmaat’s actions were a result of the way Newcastle started the game with the intention to rough Swansea up in a bid to put them off their game. Monk suggested that Newcastle had “basically tried to kick” Montero.

McClaren said: “I don’t think we are capable of doing that. We don’t have the team capable of doing that. You could see we were trying to play football.

“The game doesn’t represent that now I don’t think there is any bad in the game now. Our team is a football team. I dispute that. You make your presence known and we did.”

Newcastle will check on the fitness of Sissoko,, who did not emerge for the second half because of the groin complaint.