Luke Williams | That was a good day's work

Head coach Luke Williams felt his Swansea City side had taken a good step forward after opening their Championship account for the season with a 3-0 win over Preston North End at the Swansea.com Stadium.

Matt Grimes, Azeem Abdulai and Žan Vipotnik were on the scoresheet, while the Swans also kept a first clean sheet of the campaign.

Swansea had over 60 per cent of the ball, racking up 12 attempts on goal and six shots on target, and Williams was pleased with how they had backed up the positives from the midweek Carabao Cup win over Gillingham.

“It does not get a lot better than that, to be honest with you,” he said.

“To have three goals and a clean sheet, you can’t really complain. So we are happy with our day’s work today.

“We took a lot of lessons from that performance on Tuesday evening, and I think you could see a lot of the same things were evident again today.

“It was very pleasing, and we have a long way to go to be the team we want to be but there are a couple of good markers there and we have to maintain those levels as a minimum.

“We put a lot of work into the opposition during that first 45 minutes, and it became more difficult for them to shut those spaces down as the game went on.

“I actually thought they started the second half brilliantly well, and they threw a lot  at us, but as the game wore on it became more our type of game and we find those spaces.

“We had that flair on the outside of the pitch, the full-backs were able to join in, but we also looked like we could penetrate through the middle of the pitch and we want to add that to our game steadily.”