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Luke Williams Admits Seven Hours Without Scoring At Swansea City Is Starting to Grate

David WilliamsDavid Williams23 October 2024
Luke Williams at the Swansea city v Millwall game held at the Swansea.com Stadium - 4th May 2024 Cr: Andrew Orchard/Alamy

Luke Williams at the Swansea city v Millwall game held at the Swansea.com Stadium - 4th May 2024 Cr: Andrew Orchard/Alamy

Luke Williams has admitted to growing frustration over Swansea City’s lack of fire power. Although they gained a useful point in a draw at Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday night, it was a 0-0 stalemate – meaning the Swans have not scored in more than seven hours of football and their winless run now

By David Williams

Luke Williams has admitted to growing frustration over Swansea City’s lack of fire power.

Although they gained a useful point in a draw at Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday night, it was a 0-0 stalemate – meaning the Swans have not scored in more than seven hours of football and their winless run now stands at five matches.

The point was enough to keep Williams’ side 13th in the Championship table, but they are nearer the relegation zone – in terms of points – than they are the play-offs.

“I don’t think a point is quite enough to satisfy anyone, but we deserved at least a point so we take that,” said Williams.

“Of course there’s frustration [over not scoring] because you cannot win without scoring a goal. But I am backing the players that we have in the squad to start finding the back of the net.

“We have a lot of positives about our performances, but of course we have to start scoring more goals.

“If I knew exactly how to solve the problem, it would have been solved already. Today we’ve hit the woodwork and sometimes that’s how close you can come.

“It wasn’t a classic, but this is a very, very tough place to play. We had to cope with a lot of direct play and the atmosphere here and I think we deserved our point,” he said.

“We certainly had a tough game, we coped well enough but it was not a great game by any means.

“There were opportunities for us, and I think that is the difference for us at the moment. If we can take some of those big chances then we will have a very different season on our hands, and that is the challenge for us as a group.

“We have shown we can handle the ball, and we can control games, and we are prepared to be tough and defend our goal.

“Now we need to be more ruthless in the opposition box.”

Both sides had chances to take all three points, but neither could find the net.

Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl said: “It’s a little bit of a similar story at the moment.

“We try, we invest, we run, we win balls, we have good build-up, we attack the spaces. But in the box of the opponent, we are not clinical.

“To win games you have to score and first you need shots on target. Today we had good opportunities, but no shots on target. At the moment that is the issue.

“It’s hard to take for my team, I feel for them, but we will come through it and if we start to score, then we can win games in a row.

“With Jamal [and the penalty appeal], I think there is a contact but I am not the ref.”

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