Sheffield Wednesday set an undesirable membership file of 9 league video games with out a aim as Swansea strolled to a 4-0 Sky Guess Championship win.
Goncalo Franco swept Swansea right into a Nineteenth-minute lead earlier than Zan Vipotnik enhanced his standing because the Championship’s high scorer with a second-half double.
Vipotnik blasted residence a free-kick from the sting of the field earlier than well ending for his fifteenth league aim of the season, and seventeenth in all competitions.
Substitute Malick Yalcouye dribbled by two minutes from time to say his first Swansea aim and safe the Welsh membership’s greatest victory of the season.
Zan Vipotnik (proper) scored twice in Swansea’s victory over Sheffield Wednesday
A sixth residence 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’ complete stays within the minus column.
Bailey Cadamarteri scored their final aim on Boxing Day and the younger striker was offered 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 aim to 14 hours of soccer.
Josh Tymon examined Murphy Cooper from 25 yards after seven minutes and Marko Stamenic fired huge 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 residence his fourth aim 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 huge.
Wednesday had a sight of aim by Jarvis Thornton’s wayward try, nevertheless it was just about one-way 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 aim contribution in first-half stoppage time.
The left-back noticed Cullen’s intelligent run to the close to publish and the Wales worldwide lifted his free-kick onto the crossbar.
Swansea’s second aim was a matter of if, not when, as Nunes curled a shot straight at Cooper and Vipotnik headed huge 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
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