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 said “It does not get a lot better than that, to be honest with you. To have three goals and a clean sheet, you can’t really complain. So we are happy with our day’s work today.
“We 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.
“It 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.
“We 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.
“I actually thought they started the second half brilliantly well, and they threw a lot at us, but as the game wore on it became more our type of game and we find those spaces.
“We 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.
“I was so happy for Žan because this is the type of goal that we want him to score, It’s a proper striker’s goal and I think for a player to get off the mark quickly, it really helps to make them feel more confident.
“Let’s hope we can provide more and more chances for him in a similar way.
“I also thought Liam Cullen’s performance was typical of him, and I am sure he is going to score a lot of goals as well.
“He 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.”
