Sheffield Wednesday set an undesirable membership document of 9 league video games with out a objective as Swansea strolled to a 4-0 Sky Wager Championship win.
Goncalo Franco swept Swansea right into a Nineteenth-minute lead earlier than Zan Vipotnik enhanced his standing because the Championship’s prime scorer with a second-half double.
Vipotnik blasted dwelling a free-kick from the sting of the field earlier than neatly ending for his fifteenth league objective of the season, and seventeenth in all competitions.
Substitute Malick Yalcouye dribbled via two minutes from time to assert his first Swansea objective and safe the Welsh membership’s largest victory of the season.
Zan Vipotnik (proper) scored twice in Swansea’s victory over Sheffield Wednesday
A sixth dwelling win in seven league video games strikes Swansea as much as fifteenth – their highest place since early November – and 5 factors adrift of the play-off locations.
Whereas Swansea will hope to make a late-season push for the highest six, Wednesday’s destiny is already sealed.
Distanced significantly from the remainder of the Championship with 18 factors docked after going into administration after which breaching EFL rules over cost obligations, the Owls’ whole stays within the minus column.
Bailey Cadamarteri scored their final objective on Boxing Day and the younger striker was bought to Wrexham on deadline day this week.
Failing to attain in South Wales eclipsed the Owls’ eight-game drought in March and April 1975, with Wednesday extending their barren run in entrance of objective to 14 hours of soccer.
Josh Tymon examined Murphy Cooper from 25 yards after seven minutes and Marko Stamenic fired extensive earlier than Wednesday’s defence was breached.
Brazilian wingers Ronald and Gustavo Nunes, making his full debut after becoming a member of on mortgage from Brentford, have been concerned earlier than Liam Cullen arrange Tymon’s teasing cross into the six-yard field.
Franco was available to slip dwelling his fourth objective of the season and the Portuguese celebrated with a jig of pleasure together with his Brazilian team-mates.
Swansea practically doubled the lead when Vipotnik noticed his snapshot deflected narrowly extensive.
Wednesday had a sight of objective via Jarvis Thornton’s wayward try, however it was just about one-way site visitors with Tymon rustling the Owls’ aspect netting.
Tymon’s raids down the left had been a function of the primary half and he was near a second objective contribution in first-half stoppage time.
The left-back noticed Cullen’s intelligent run to the close to put up and the Wales worldwide lifted his free-kick onto the crossbar.
Swansea’s second objective was a matter of if, not when, as Nunes curled a shot straight at Cooper and Vipotnik headed extensive one other free-kick from Tymon.
The Slovenian striker was not discouraged, nevertheless, grabbing the ball after Yalcouye was upended after 70 minutes and beating Cooper with a ferocious free-kick above the goalkeeper’s head.
Vipotnik completed from Ronald’s cross 9 minutes later earlier than Yalcouye saved his composure to sentence Wednesday to their second-heaviest defeat of the marketing campaign.
The managers
Swansea’s Vitor Matos:
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