Swansea City continue pre-season with Brondby draw

Swansea City continued their pre-season campaign with a goalless draw against Danish side Brondby at Fairwood.

Following on from the 2-0 victory over Haverfordwest, the Swans were again in action behind closed doors as they fielded two different sides across the 90 minutes.

Michael Duff’s men almost went ahead in the third minute as Jay Fulton capitalised on a mistake at the back to set up Josh Thomas, but his shot was blocked inside the box.

At the other end, the visitors almost took the lead just a few minutes later as Mathias Greve’s shot was brilliantly blocked by Ben Lloyd.

Morgan Whittaker saw a low shot well held by Thomas Mikkelsen before Brondby should have broken the deadlock on 19 minutes when Greve was involved again, but he skied his effort over the crossbar from close range.

Just before the break the hosts came close again as a cross from the right found its way to Lloyd at the far edge of the box and his shot was well tipped over by Mikkelsen.

Following a string of half-time substitutions, it was Brondby who came close on the hour mark as Lewis Webb raced out of his goal to close down Mathias Kvistgaarden as the striker clipped his effort over the bar.

New signing Josh Key also entered the action with half an hour to play for his first taste of action since joining from Exeter City.

Jamie Paterson came close for the hosts when his free-kick from 25 yards out fell the wrong side of the left-hand post, while the visitors had opportunities of their own as Greve’s long-rang strike was brilliantly parried by Webb, before Daniel Wass saw his fierce drive come back off the crossbar.

Swansea City (first half): Andy Fisher, Joel Cotterill, Brandon Cooper, Kyle Naughton, Azeem Abdulai, Ben Lloyd, Fulton, Allen, Ntcham, Whittaker, Josh Thomas.

Swansea City (second half): Lewis Webb, Joe Thomas (Josh Key 60’), Filip Lissah, Harry Darling, Nathan Wood, Cameron Congreve, Matt Grimes, Jamie Paterson, Ollie Cooper, Joel Piroe, Liam Cullen.