Anthony Wright | Young players will learn a lot from the game

Coach Anthony Wright was pleased with a very young Swansea City Under-21s' squad performance despite defeat against Watford at the Joma High Performance Centre.

All goals came in the second half, with Amin Nabizada opening to scoring before Glory Nzingo headed home to bring the Swans level.

Swansea had the chance to take the lead not long after through a penalty, but Roraigh Browne dived the same way as Kyrell Wilson's spot-kick.

And the visitors went on the grab two quick-fire goals through Laken Torres and Messiah-Edwards to head back to London with three points.

Anthony Wright fielded a young team, handing 15-year-old Harvey Gray and 16-year-old Kai Rhodes their debut starts alongside Milo Robinson and Osian Williams.

Meanwhile, Bobo Evans, Elis Thomas and Wahab Ojetoro also made their first appearances off the bench for the upper-age-group and the head coach expressed the importance of exposing those young players to the highest level of development football.

"I'm actually really pleased. I'm pleased with the under-21 players that we had available, and then with the younger players," he said.

"The scoreline is not a reflection of the game, in the last 10 minutes we probably ran out of steam after Friday's game. 

"The big moment was when we missed the penalty, I think if we had scored that we would have gone on and won the game.

"The game was all about giving them some exposure to this level, and they were brilliant. I thought young Kai Rhodes, stepping up from under-16s football to under-21s, really grew into the game and in the second-half he was excellent.

"The under-18s have their FA Youth Cup game this week, so we didn't want to take any players because we know how big and important that fixture is.

"It was great to bring them in and see what our environment is about and hopefully, can inspire them to work as hard as they can to reach that level."