Swansea City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers – Your player ratings

Copying from my match thread comment:

Vigouroux: 8
A couple of key stops, the diving save for Weimann's header in the first half a highlight. His distribution looked far better today too

Tymon: 8
Wicked cross for the first, defended well and attacked at every opportunity where we sensed weakness in the Blackburn midfield for the counter press.

Darling: 8
Won a lot of headers from Blackburn corners and played some cracking balls out from defence into a midfield who were ready to turn on the ball and attack. Looked like the player we all rated highly last year

Cabango: 8
Shrugged off a knock in the second half, a captain's performance and he demanded more from everyone. Vocal and didn't give Blackburn an inch.

Key: 8
Amazing what being played as a full back can do for him. He defended well, offered overlaps and combination play with Cullen and Ronald

O'Brien: 9
Ran the midfield like a Rolls Royce, he was everywhere. Offered himself for the out ball for defenders and played some beautiful passes when we transitioned defence into attack at pace

Franco: 9
The off roader to compliment the Rolls Royce in midfield. He battled for everything, was involved in so much of our passing play and was unlucky not to score. Showed a lot of guile and clever passing play going forward too

Peart-Harris: 8
Faster game tempo brings out best of quick forward shocker. He actually got to use his strength and pace, scored a beautifully taken goal on the stroke of half time and actually looked like a player loaned from a Premier League club

Ronald: 8
Didn't score or get an assist today, but he was hungry and it was his attempt to take on his man when he switched flanks to the left that led to the free kick that got us our first goal. Hopefully we start seeing him back to his best

Cullen: 8
Seemed off the pace in the first half but had an excellent second half. Almost racked up an assist for Vipotnik and he did get his goal. Could have had two or three today with a better day at the office but he will be happy with getting his 10th league goal of the season.

Vipotnik: 8
Got a goal, lots of hold up play and could have scored two more if it wasn't for two brilliant last ditch sliding tackles from the Blackburn defenders and had an assist if the keeper didn't save brilliantly from Franco. Held the ball up well and brought players into the game around and beyond him, showcased how criminally he was wasted by Williams.

Sheehan: 9
From accounts I have read he isn't interested in the manager job yet but he couldn't have made a much better case for it than this. Tactics were spot on, the changes were made at good times and more importantly the players were hungry and fought for him for every ball and every 50/50.

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Agree, but with a little hindsight, what you have described and what seems to have impressed us all was really no more than "getting the basics right" which just shows how how far off being a football team we had become. Yesterday, we didn't really do anything exceptional but we made a top 6 team look pretty ordinary. In this division, Leeds have maybe 1 or 2 individuals who can be a cut above on their day but it seems to me like the chasing pack just get the basics right consistently and that is enough in this division to stay in touch at the top end and even get promoted. Unfortunately, recent seasons have shown that you need to do so much more than just getting the basics right in the Prem or you will come straight back down.

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