Anthony Wright | The players' performance deserved more

Coach Anthony Wright praised Swansea City Under-21s' performance against top-of-the-table Queens Park Rangers despite being held to a goalless draw in their final Professional Development League clash of 2023.

In a hard-fought contest, the Swans had the better of the chances with Mykola Kuharevich going close, while Cameron Congreve and Sam Parker were denied by the keeper and woodwork respectively. 

Nevertheless, the result means the development side have gone through 2023 unbeaten on home soil in the Professional Development League, although there will be frustration they did not emerge with all three points against a visiting side who been unbeaten in five games coming into this fixture.

The clash saw a handful senior players involved, Kristian Pedersen played an hour, while Nathan Wood and Mykola Kuharevich got 70 minutes in the tank. Nathanael Ogbeta and Nathan Broome played the full game.

"It was really good to see some players drop in and get game time, which was very important ," said Wright.

"It was a dominating performance, on another day, we would have probably scored three to five goals, but it was just one of those days where we couldn't put it in the back of the net.

"To be honest, that's unlike us as we've been scoring lots of goals recently and throughout the season.

"But there's loads of positives to take, it was a good performance, we just couldn't round it up on the day.

"I think we play a good brand of football. We get the ball down and work areas of the pitch really, which I thought we did really well on.

"It was difficult at times to stretch the game because of the conditions and the wind, when the ball went in the air it ran out quite a bit.

"Development wise, I'm really pleased coming into the halfway point of the season. We've got a good batch of players coming through.

"They're a real good group of players, they have excellent attitudes and they're great learners. We've still got quite a young squad and they still have a lot of time to grow, which is brilliant."