Anthony Wright | The players dug deep and they stuck together

Coach Anthony Wright praised Swansea City Under-21s' spirit and togetherness as they claimed a 2-0 victory over Burnley at the Swansea.com Stadium on Monday evening.

Morgan Bates opened the scoring early on for the hosts as he capitalised on a loose ball in the box to fire home from close range.

Jacob Cook doubled Swansea's lead just 16 minutes later, sending a low driven effort into the bottom corner.

It means the Swans have won three of their last four games, and have emerged victorious in every game they’ve played at the Swansea.com Stadium over the last two seasons.

And Wright was also pleased with the way they bounced back from a heavy defeat at AFC Bournemouth last time out.

"I think the first half was probably as good a performance as it could have been for us. I think that was us at a real high level against a very good opposition. We won our duels all over the pitch, and tactically off the ball we caused them big problems," he said.

"They found it difficult to have any momentum in the game. More importantly, on the ball we were terrific. We recognised when to play forward, we recognised when we needed to keep the ball and we just looked a threat throughout the game. 

"The only disappointing thing was we came in at half-time 2-0 up, and I genuinely believe it should have been four or five. It’s a different game then.

"The difficulty for us is that at half-time there was a lot of positivity in the room about the game, and rightly so, and then you’re asking the team to go and replicate the first half, that’s always going to be difficult.

"The score is 2-0 and Burnley still have something to cling on to, they know the next goal is important and in fairness they came out in the second half and tried to put us under a lot of pressure and I’m really pleased with how we dealt with that side as well. 

"We dug deep for each other, we did look a bit leggy maybe the last 20 minutes of the game. We’ve had a lot of games in the last few weeks.

"The more pleasing part for me was that during that spell the players stuck together and we had a mentality that we weren’t going to concede a goal, albeit that Kit (Margetson) made two fantastic saves in the second half. We know he is capable of that. I’m absolutely delighted with the performance."