In the contest to discover which team will secure the final promotion place to the Premier League how fitting to see moment of Premier League class.
Barnsley against Swansea was a game that romance attached, given the South Yorkshire team’s run from nowhere to the edge of the Promised Land, but the reality, for large parts, was this game, full of tension, was a difficult watch.
That was not the case, however, in the moments before half-time when Andre Ayew scored the goal that has put the men from South Wales in control of this particular semi-final – no wonder Steve Cooper was so happy on Saturday when reporting his striker from Ghana was fit for battle.