Blackburn received a right away return from their new signing Sammie Szmodics as he opened his account on his debut to arrange a 3-0 win over Swansea on the Swansea.Com Stadium.
The 26-year-old performed for Peterborough of their 1-0 win over Cheltenham in Sky Guess League One final weekend, however he then agreed a three-year cope with Rovers two days later and was given an early likelihood to shine by new boss Jon Dahl Tomasson.
There was no Joe Allen within the Swansea line-up as he was given extra time to get well from the hamstring pressure he picked up taking part in for Wales towards Belgium within the Nations Cup.
He’s set to bridge a 10-year hole since leaving his first membership subsequent week and make his 151st look since becoming a member of on a free switch from Stoke in the summertime.
Swansea boss Russell Martin made two modifications from the staff that had drawn 1-1 at Rotherham within the opening recreation of the season as he gave Olivier Ntcham and Ryan Manning their first begins.
The house aspect dominated possession, whereas Blackburn waited to pounce on the break. Stable on the again, they waited for his or her second and it got here when Jay Fulton misplaced the ball halfway in his personal half.
It was former Swan and Wales worldwide midfielder Ryan Hedges who picked Fulton’s pocket as the house aspect as soon as once more tried to play the ball round their again line.
As soon as he had possession, Hedges headed straight in direction of the Swansea purpose earlier than squaring to Szmodics, who made no mistake from the sting of the realm as he picked his spot in the fitting nook of Andy Fisher’s house purpose.
That purpose dented the house aspect’s confidence and inspired Rovers to press ahead much more. Swansea opened the second half with three corners, and close-range efforts from Joel Piroe and Michael Obafemi, however they by no means regarded convincing.
Issues went from unhealthy to worse for Martin’s males when Ben Brereton Diaz outmuscled Joel Latibeaudiere as he raced onto one other nice ball into area by Hedges and ran 20 metres earlier than chipping over the advancing Fisher for a second purpose simply earlier than the hour mark.
As the house followers grew increasingly pissed off their hopes of seeing a minimum of one purpose from their aspect had been thwarted when Tayo Edun cleared off the road as substitute Matty Sorinola regarded all set to open his account for his new membership.
The ultimate nail within the Swansea coffin was hammered house by Rovers skipper Lewis Travis because the guests flooded ahead within the 84th minute after as soon as once more stealing possession.
After carrying into the field, he gave Fisher no likelihood with a rocket that flew into the highest left nook to go away Rovers sitting fairly on the prime of the Championship desk with two spectacular wins from two video games.
