18/7/2009

Swansea City started their pre-season campaign under new manager Paulo Sousa today with a convincing 3-1 win over Steve McClaren’s Dutch Champions League qualifiers FC Twente before 7,000 spectators at the Liberty Stadium..

Swans took the lead through substitute Gorka Pintado after the interval, Nikita Rukavytsya equalised, but the Swans made the result safe with goals from 17-year-old Casey Thomas and a penalty by Pintado.

Teams:

Swans: Dorus de Vries (David Cornell, 75'); Matty Collins (Ashley Richards, 76'), Garry Monk (Albert Serran, 45'), Ashley Williams, Alan Tate (Fede Bessone, 84'), Nathan Dyer (Chad Bond, 84'), Darren Pratley (Scott Evans, 87'), Leon Britton (Joe Allen, 67'), Andrea Orlandi (Casey Thomas, 76'), Guillem Bauza (Shaun MacDonald, 46'), Stephen Dobbie (Gorka Pintado, 46').

FC Twente: Sander Boschker (Nikolay Mihaylov, 46'), Nicky Kuiper (Jeroen Heubach, 46'), Peter Wisgerhof, Wout Brama (Nashat Akram, 46'), Ronnie Stam (Alexander Bannink, 46' (Nikita Rukavytsya, 54')), Blaise N'Kufo (Luuk De Jong, 63'), Kenneth Perez (Cheik Tiote, 46'), Miroslav Stoch (Tjarron Chery, 61'), Douglas, Theo Janssen, Dario Vujicevec.
Subs: Nick Hengelman.

Attendance: 7,304