Afrigather Wycombe shocked Championship aspect Swansea within the Carabao Cup as a first-half strike from Richard Kone earned the guests a 1-0 win within the second spherical.
Following on from their 2-0 house win at Northampton within the first spherical, Matt Bloomfield’s League One aspect totally deserved the upset win as they booked their place in spherical three for simply the third time within the membership’s historical past.
Richard Kone scored the winner on the Swansea.com Stadium
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Carabao Cup third-round draw:
- Liverpool vs West Ham
- Man Metropolis vs Watford
- Arsenal vs Bolton
- Manchester United vs Barnsley
- Wycombe vs Aston Villa
- Coventry vs Tottenham
- Walsall vs Leicester
- Brentford vs Leyton Orient
- Blackpool vs Sheffield Wednesday
- Preston vs Fulham
- Everton vs Southampton
- QPR vs Crystal Palace
- Stoke vs Fleetwood
- Brighton vs Wolves
- AFC Wimbledon vs Newcastle
- Chelsea vs Barrow
Kieran Sadlier had already missed a golden probability to place them forward, firing huge together with his left foot after going by, when 5 minutes earlier than the break Kone made no mistake from shut vary after being teed up by Matt Butcher.
Swansea, who made eight adjustments from the derby draw with Cardiff on Sunday, barely threatened till supervisor Luke Williams made a triple substitution simply earlier than the hour mark, sending on Ben Cabango, Josh Tymon and Ronald.
Carabao Cup dates:
- Spherical Three: w/c September 16/23
- Spherical 4: October 30
- Quarter-finals: December 18
- Semi-finals: January 8 (first leg) & February 5 (second leg)
- Last: March 16
And it was Ronald whose floated cross created an enormous probability for Florian Bianchini on the again publish, however the Frenchman skewed his header again throughout aim.
Joe Allen and Liam Cullen had been additionally thrown into the combo as Swansea pressed, however after Allen might solely stab over following a goalmouth scramble, the guests held on.
Williams criticises Swansea’s ‘torpid angle
Swansea’s Luke Williams:
“The primary half was atrocious. We improved after that, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not efficiency.
“There was an absence of vitality, lack of depth, lack of aggression, and lack of high quality in a disjointed efficiency.
“They’ve actually been advised they can not come out with that sort of torpid angle.”
Bloomfield: I am immensely proud
Wycombe’s Matt Bloomfield:
“We performed some actually good things within the first half and we knew we had been going to have giant spells with out the ball. We labored arduous on our form and construction.
“We needed to take pleasure in it after we had the ball taking part in towards a possession-based crew. We created some good possibilities within the first half.
“We had 9 or 10 gamers out and we needed to rotate the crew. I am immensely happy with the way in which the boys defended.
“We knew we would must be so nicely drilled out and in of possession and we executed it fantastically. We had numerous gamers lacking by harm however the lads carried out excellently.”
