Graham Potter admitted his Swansea City youngsters needed a half-time lecture before giving Blackburn a second-half lesson. The Swans claimed only their second win in eight games after recovering from trailing to a penalty.

Former Swansea City striker Danny Graham has vowed there will be no sentiment when he aims to lift Blackburn Rovers into the Championship play-off places on Tuesday night. Graham – who spent two seasons at the Swans and scored 21 goals before leaving in 2013 – is part of an in-form Rovers team heading for the Liberty Stadium. Back-to-back victories over Bolton and Leeds have put them seventh in the table and a third victory is likely to push them into the top six.

There was an air of inevitability about Tammy Abraham being the match-winner against Swansea City, but the club’s former loan striker was told he should have heaped far more misery on them. Abraham scored the only goal of the game as the Swans lost away at Aston Villa. The young England striker – who scored eight times in 41 appearances for the Swans last season – should have had a hat-trick on Saturday, however, according to his new manager Dean Smith.

Graham Potter has warned his Swansea City players they need to be ready for an emotion-charged atmosphere at Villa Park on Saturday – or else they will be in “big trouble.” For all the pats on the back given to Potter for returning the Swans to their traditional eye-pleasing style in recent weeks, the facts of life are that they have won just one Championship match in their last six. At Villa, they face a 42,000 sell-out crowd – double the capacity at the Liberty Stadium – against a club desperate to create a frenzy for their new manager Dean Smith, his new assistant John Terry, and to honour the memory of their former chairman Doug Ellis who died last week.

Barry Town United’s Mo Touray was the pride of JD Sports Welsh Premier League football when he was sent on for Wales during their 3-1 Uefa Under-21 Championship win against Switzerland. The match was at Rodney Parade, home of Touray’s parent club Newport County, and the striker was one of two WPL players in the […]

Brennan Johnson, an English-born teenager who has chosen to play for Wales, underlined his quality during the under-19 international win against Poland. Johnson, the son of former Jamaica, Ipswich and Nottingham Forest player David, scored two outstanding goals in a 2-0 friendly win against the Poles at Nantporth, Bangor. Brennan started his international career with […]

Merthyr Town took on the Swans in midweek – and they take on a different flight of Swans on Saturday. Neither of their opponents have any connection with Swansea City, but both are proud of their club’s nickname. The Martyrs travelled to Gloucestershire for their League Cup time against Slimbridge AFC, who gained their Swans […]

Swansea City have six players in the Wales under-21 squad for their Uefa Championship group matches against Romania away and Switzerland at Rodney Parade. The six are Keston Davies, Cian Harries, Liam Cullen, Daniel James, Brandon Cooper, Aaron Lewis, while Mark Harris and Cameron Coxe are the Cardiff City players in the group. Joe Rodon […]

Graham Potter has urged his Swansea City players to retain their perspective after they crashed to 3-2 home defeat to Ipswich Town which sent them falling out of the Championship play-off places. The Swans manager insisted they should not over-react to the defeat which came after praise for their recent away draw at Wigan and convincing home victory over QPR. Chairman Huw Jenkins had claimed that the club were back playing “sexy football” but Ipswich were the ones looking pleased with themselves after inflicting a second home defeat of the season on their hosts.

Swansea City chairman Huw Jenkins has declared his club are playing “sexy football” again under manager Graham Potter. Jenkins – who turned to Potter at the start of the summer after hiring and firing Garry Monk, Francesco Guidolin, Bob Bradley, Paul Clement and Carlos Carvalhal in rapid succession – reckons the club have rediscovered their identity under their current boss who he describes as “a breath of fresh air.” Writing in his programme notes ahead of Saturday’s home game against Ipswich, Jenkins has heaped praise on Potter who has guided his team into the play-off positions despite having to oversee a fire sale of top talent.

Graham Potter insisted he was happy to escape from the “bedlam” of a goalless draw at Wigan with a point that lifted Swansea City into the Championship play-off places. The Swans manager watched his team spurn a number of opportunities to take all three points on Tuesday night and claim a victory which would have put them within one win of the top two. But Potter was also indebted to goalkeeper Kiristoffer Nordfeldt – surprisingly picked ahead of Erwin Mulder – for a superb save to deny Wigan striker Will Grigg.

Oli McBurnie will try and leave Wigan badly burned on Tuesday night to prove he’s the striker on fire, rather than Will Grigg. The two marksmen are set to meet at the DW Stadium, where it will be a shoot-out between the clubs seventh and eighth in the Championship table. The Swans are one place above their opponents and will be hopeful that McBurnie can ignite his team more than the Northern Irishman Grigg, who gave rise to his country’s memorable fans’ song at Euro 2016.