Swansea 0 - Burnley 2 (Brownhill 4’, Anthony 22’)
It was a hugely disappointing game yesterday in front of a sparse crowd.
To know the game was over after four minutes spoilt the match and silenced our fans.
It took only a few minutes for Burnley to open us up, the weak defender right-back Key slipped on the ball and fell over leaving Edwards to run free and cross for Brownhill to score with ease. We just couldn’t keep possession and our lack of physicality and pace was obvious and for the second game running we were outmuscled. Burnley just kept on taking the ball off us and with their high-press were overrunning us. The naive Swans tactics of pumping long balls out of defence played right into Burnley’s hands, their giant 6’4” French centre-back Esteve sweeping up every high ball, beating Vipotnik every time.
When we were able to attack we were caught on the counter, which led to Burnley’s second goal after 22 minutes, a goalmouth scramble with Anthony firing home at the second attempt.
It was little better from Swans second-half, our midfield of Franco and O’Brien were outplayed and were substituted with Fulton and Cooper but it made little difference.
With only one shot on target throughout to show for swans endeavours the match was over long before the end.
Special mention for the biased Oliver Langford as once again we got nothing from the referee. A blatant penalty appeal for hand ball turned down as Franco’s goal bound shot hit Riley’s arm. Plus Burnley were allowed to get away with their spoiling tactics, petty fouling and bullying us off the ball to great effect.
Worrying times for Swansea after consecutive defeats drag us back into the relegation mix and now just six points away from the bottom three.
We have to sit on that poor showing from the players for two weeks until the next match and it couldn’t be a worse fixture - Leeds away.