Two teams which were in the Premier League in the 2016/17 season, with Middlesborough being relegated that year and the Welsh team the year after, face in this tasty affair.
Middlesborough have managed two draws and ten losses in their last twelve games. Winless in twelve, something has to change for the Teeside team.
Boro had started the game as the more promising off the two teams, with a chance they should have in all honesty scored from as the ball fell to Sarmiento and a few other players but they were unable to convert. In the fourth minute, Swansea showed how they could play through the Middlesborough press as they created their own chance to score. The first five minutes have been a nice end-to-end affair.
Luke Ayling, the former Leeds defender, captains Boro in this encounter.
When in possession, Leeds build up in a 4-1-2-3 formation while they invite the Middlesborough press to play through rather than bypassing it.
In the twelfth minute, a string of good passes and a misplaced touch from Sam Barker led to a well-taken finish by Bangura as he powers one past Vigouroux to give Middlesborough a one-nil lead. A minute later, the highlight is in the Boro box as the ball hits Luke Ayling’s arm, but no penalty was awarded.
Swansea begin to gradually push players forward, looking for the equalizing goal. And they got their reward, as in the eighteenth minute, the goal scorer Bangura fouls Josh Cullen.
In the twentieth minute, Vipotnik equalizes for Swansea City. He hits it to the goalkeepers left. It’s one all. He got his twentieth EFL Championship goal from the spot.
It’s been a lovely end-to-end affair with both players going for it.
Jeremy Sarmiento has shown a lot of pace and trickery down that left wing with Bangura also making himself an option down that side with the overlap and at times the underlap.
Alex Bangura then had to be subbed off in the thirty-fifth minute due to injury.
In the fortieth minute, Vipotnik has a counter-attacking chance to give the Swans the lead, but he slipped and the chance went away. He had another chance in the forty-second minute as Swansea, bit by bit create chance after chance looking for the second goal.
The referee awarded five minutes of additional time at the end of the first half in which Middlesborough had a chance to score in the forty-sixth minute
In the forty-seventh minute, Eon, the tricky Swans winger was fouled by the Boro goalkeeper, Brynn, in the box. Could he redeem himself from the spot?
The answer to that is NO!
Vipotnik with the second goal. 2-1 Swansea.
The half-time whistle is blown with no other changes to the scoreline. 2-1.
Ore M. 
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