Swansea, a club renowned for advocating the beautiful game, turned ugly to open up a four-point advantage in the Championship’s automatic promotion race.
In Connor Roberts they appear to have unearthed the new Rory Delap, and it was from one of the Wales international’s touchline launches that Ben Cabango opened the scoring in first-half injury time at Oakwell, prompting Steve Cooper’s coaching staff to joke it was ‘the first ever long throw and headed goal in Swansea’s history.’
Cooper said: ‘It was a real threat because of the way the game was, and if that’s what it took, that’s what it took.