A somewhat lacklustre encounter that we never should have lost – some strange officiating saw us a goal down after 18 minutes and we chased the game from that point onward.
Kyrell Wilson equalised when he got on the end of a flowing move, Swansea’s best of the game. Another cracking left footed finish beyond the “˜keeper.
In the 2nd half we resorted to fairly primitive tactics – often overhitting the ball out of defence to try to get Kyrell on the end of it. Mostly this was food and drink for the Burnley back four and keeper. As the match progressed, our lack of urgency became more apparent.
Still, we created plenty of chances – Cotterill, Nzingo, Cadogan, Veevers, Congreve, Wilson and Lloyd all had efforts either off target or sent straight at the Burnley goalie. At one point it looked as though we’d benefit from one of the various scrambles in the Burnley box, but the ball simply wouldn’t go in.
The last 10 minutes or so were very nip and tuck – Burnley’s substitutions had a more positive effect for them and it wasn’t a total surprise when the Swans lost possession a minute from normal time for Burnley to break once more to score through former Penybont youngster Tom Tweedy. His family was in attendance and no doubt enjoyed the moment.
Too many of our team weren’t at the races today.
Burnley’s opening penalty was very soft – our keeper hesitated to collect a speculative through header and the Clarets’ trialist striker did the rest by falling dramatically when Margetson came near him.
We probed patiently, Charlie Veevers having quite an influential role in midfield. Overall, though, we just weren’t clinical enough to get something from the game. To add injury to insult, we also lost Joe Thomas and Joel Cotterill to 2nd half knocks. Both Iestyn Jones and Jacob Cook deputised well.
We varied formation from 3-5-2 to 3-4-3, but some of the positional switches during the game didn’t really work: Kit Margetson; Joe Thomas (s – Iestyn Jones 59m), Filip Lissah (captain), Kian Jenkins; Glory Nzingo, Charlie Veevers, Joel Cotterill (s – Jacob Cook 69m), Ben Lloyd; Kyrell Wilson, Maliq Cadogan, Cameron Congreve.
Goalscoring: McDermott (0-1 penalty 18m); Wilson (1-1 51m); Tweedy (1-2 89m).
There was a respectful minute’s applause beforehand for Leighton James.
Burnley coach was ex-Burnley and Wigan midfielder Andy Farrell.