A good day at the office for Williams as he praises strike duo

Saturday, 17 August 2024, 19:53
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Luke Williams was a naturally happy man this evening after watching his side secure a comfortable 3-0 win over Preston at the Swansea.com Stadium, a result that gave his side a first league success of the season.

After the disappointment of last week’s defeat at Middlesbrough, today’s win meant back to back home wins for the Swans after we progressed in the League Cup on Tuesday at the expense of Gillingham

Goals from Matt Griemes, Azeem Abdulai and Zan Vipotnik gave the Swans the three points that their performance deserved and was a perfect set up for the visit of Cardiff next week, with the visitors arriving in SA1 next Sunday bottom of the league after they were hammered 5-0 at Burnley this afternoon.

Speaking at his post match press conference, Williams saidย โ€œIt does not get a lot better than that, to be honest with you.ย  To have three goals and a clean sheet, you canโ€™t really complain. So we are happy with our dayโ€™s work today.

โ€œWe took a lot of lessons from that performance on Tuesday evening, and I think you could see a lot of the same things were evident again today.

โ€œIt was very pleasing, and we have a long way to go to be the team we want to be but there are a couple of good markers there and we have to maintain those levels as a minimum.

โ€œWe put a lot of work into the opposition during that first 45 minutes, and it became more difficult for them to shut those spaces down as the game went on.

โ€œI actually thought they started the second half brilliantly well, and they threw a lotย  at us, but as the game wore on it became more our type of game and we find those spaces.

โ€œWe had that flair on the outside of the pitch, the full-backs were able to join in, but we also looked like we could penetrate through the middle of the pitch and we want to add that to our game steadily.

โ€œI was so happy for ลฝan because this is the type of goal that we want him to score, Itโ€™s a proper strikerโ€™s goal and I think for a player to get off the mark quickly, it really helps to make them feel more confident.

โ€œLetโ€™s hope we can provide more and more chances for him in a similar way.

โ€œI also thought Liam Cullenโ€™s performance was typical of him, and I am sure he is going to score a lot of goals as well.

โ€œHe stayed so calm in the action where he picked Ollie out for the second goal, he had worked so hard to get there and I think it was a great outing for our two strikers.โ€

Images courtesy of Getty Images, Athena Picture Agency and Swansea City Football Club.

Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.

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