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Neath 1 Swansea City 5 - Report and Pictures Dai Smith
A fairly healthy crowd of around 2,000 on a fine evening saw the Swans coast to a 5-1 win against Neath Athletic. Willy Gueret Painter Austin Graves Rangel Britton Pratley Collins Robinson Trundle Bussy  A long period of domination followed with the Swans forcing a great many corners and a few smart saves from their keeper. Trundle looked sharp and alert, with Bussy making some nice runs and Trundle seeming to attract the kicks of the Neath defence. The second goal was from one of these fouls, conceded on the edge of the box. Trundle dusted himself down and curled the ball into the top corner. This seemed to spur Neath into their best period of the game.  The final 10 minutes or so of the half saw Neath have two shots and one header on goal – all saved very well by Gueret. Player Comments Gueret - Made a couple of excellent saves. Faultless performance. Painter - Neat enough Austin - Played well at centre half - even popped up with a goal. Graves - Played both halves at centre half. The lad has filled out in the close season and is starting to look the part. Rangel - Some neat touches Britton - Nice first half from Leon, it will be interesting to see if he maintains his spot ahead of Anderson Pratley - Looked sharp Collins - I was quite impressed with him, nice runs, good movement Robinson - Looked fit enough, but on a few occasions today, took the wrong option of a shot when team mates were much better placed. Trundle - Think Trunds will have sore legs this evening - he took a bit of a kicking from the Neath defence, but still took a nice goal and looked the biggest threat up front in the first half. Bussy - Good movement, quite quick, first touch let him down a couple of time tonight though. The second half saw a different team take the field - ten changes in all. DeVries Tate Monk Graves Price Anderson Bodde Craney McDonnald Thiam Duffy  A chance for the Senegalese trialist was squandered when it looked easier for him to score with a point blank header. Unfortunately for him, he managed to put his effort over the bar. Another run from him saw some nice close control but his shot was nearer the corner flag than the goals. A mistake from Garry Monk saw the only blot on the copybook tonight and saw the Neath centre forward place the ball past DeVries into the corner. Swansea however had the last word, when a deflected effort from the impressive Anderson found the corner of the net to make the score 5-1.  Player Comment DeVries - A lot more vocal than Willy, but had little to do in the second half. Tate - Nice game from Tatey, another interesting competition for the right-back shirt this season. Monk - Played OK, but made two mistakes - one of which cost us a goal Graves - see first half comments Price - Trialist from Birmingham - Emmanuel Petit hairstyle, showed some neat touches and was eager for the ball Anderson - Class act, very quick - can't wait to see him tear up some of the League One full backs Bodde - My Man of the Match, looks like the lad has it all. Short and long passing, aggression, nice free kick and is quite quick too. Craney - Normal Craney performance, workmanlike but unspectacular. Had a great chance to break his Swans goal duck, but blew it. McDonnald - Tried hard enough, but nothing seemed to come off for him tonight. Thiam - Ooops, last Swans game I fear Duffy - Carried on from where he left off last season, looks sharp  Would you like your match report printed here? Email it to the site straight after the match. Click here to return to the main page. |
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