Swansea 1 (Cullen 95’) - Preston 1 (Jebbison 26’)
You often hear about a game of two contrasting halves, well this was a classic one.
Preston surprisingly outplayed us in what was a lethargic Swans performance first-half and they could have scored more than the one goal.
Matos made changes at half-time and turned the game on its head, bringing on three subs. Preston were on the ropes and tried to stop us by fair or foul means, diving in to tackles and putting their bodies on the line in order to stop us, with a complicit referee unwilling to penalise them.
Swans wasted chance after chance as Preston hung on. Cabango hit the post, twice headed wide, Burgess headed wide and Yalcouye fluffed the best chance of the game, shooting straight at the keeper with the goal at his mercy.
Two penalty shouts unheeded by the incompetent referee and it looked as if it was going to be one of those nights where we just couldn’t find the net.
In the dying seconds, one more attack, a pinpoint cross from sub Nunes and sub Cullen’s fine header finally produced a goal and the stadium erupted.
So Swans home record, unbeaten since last November, remained intact and we salvaged a draw that our second half display deserved.
Frustration in the end, not the result we wanted going into the match but relief that we got something out of the game that our second-half resurgence deserved.