Swansea City 0-2 Coventry City: Ellis Simms scores as Frank Lampard's Sky Blues win fourth straight league game

Coventry were unable to parade new signing Matt Grimes at his forming stamping ground but they were still far too strong for Swansea as they made it four wins in a row with a 2-0 victory.

Grimes was formally announced as a Coventry player on Friday and left the Swansea.Com Stadium after a decade of service. Having not missed a game since March 2023, his former team-mates looked lost without him.

The latest win for Coventry took them up to 11th place and only three points adrift of the play-offs. Swansea are now without a win in seven games this year and have lost their last four Sky Bet Championship matches to stay in 17th.

After a cagey start it was the visitors, seeking their first Championship win on Welsh soil since March 2022, who took the lead in the 16th minute.

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Milan van Ewijk sent a long throw down the right touchline in the home half and Brandon Thomas-Asante battled to first win the ball and then cross to allow Ellis Sims to swivel and hammer home from the six-yard area.

Frank Lampard's side were by far the more aggressive and creative, and former Swansea player Jake Bidwell unleashed a shot that flew over the crossbar four minutes later.

Usually the more fluent of passing teams, Swansea took their time to play without Grimes before a great cross from the left by Josh Tymon forced Bobby Thomas to clear for a corner.

Jay Fulton had the ball in the back of the Coventry net from the following corner, but referee Sam Allison spotted a foul beforehand and was disallowed.

Thomas had a great chance at the other end moments later when he got to Victor Torp's in-swinging free-kick from the right, but his header at the near post just flashed wide.

Home goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux was called into action to save with his feet from Thomas-Asante as he sent Liam Kitching's cross-shot from the left goalwards with a neat flick.

At the other end, Oliver Dovin was forced to dive to save a Ronald header to keep Coventry in front.

Then came a moment of magic from Thomas-Asante as he capitalised on some sloppy control from Giancalo Franco 40 yards out from the Swansea goal and hit the ball first time to lob Vigouroux and give the visitors a 2-0 lead a minute before the break.

Coventry had some great chances to add to their lead in the second half, but Thomas-Asante missed a touch from two yards out four minutes after the restart and then Vigouroux had to use his feet once again to stop Jack Rudoni from scoring from a Sims cutback.

Moments later, new Swansea captain Ben Cabango had to block a Rudoni shot to keep his goal intact as Coventry maintain their winning touch.

The managers

Swansea's Luke Williams:

"We tried to give us some more bodies in the middle of the pitch because Matty is tough to replace.

"We tried to change things a little bit to see if we can adapt. I think the front two for Coventry really caused us a lot of problems - they were the big difference between the two teams.

"The best side won, but we weren't able to cope with them. It's very difficult to be the same type of team without Matt Grimes, for the moment.

"We need to try to find a way to control the game again. We made some good openings, but we didn't make enough of them.

"We're not the team at the moment that can make one or two chances and score one or two goals. We have to find a way."

Coventry's Frank Lampard:

"It was a very complete performance, other than another few goals to make it even more comfortable because a game is never done at 2-0.

"Everything about the performance on and off the ball, and in creating chances was good, and defensively we were spot on all over the pitch.

"All the things you want to win away from home we did. We are on a good run, but I'm not getting too carried away because I know things can flip very quickly in football and we have to play the best team in the league on Wednesday (Leeds).

"They were two really good goals and one was fantastic. They have to be a threat when they play together up front and what they are doing makes them a threat.

"Eight or 10 games ago we weren't winning headers up front or holding up the ball, but now we are and you can see the difference. It has to continue and it can get even better."

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