Report | Swansea City 2 Wrexham 1

Zan Vipotnik’s deflected strike and Adam Idah’s stoppage time effort ensured Swansea City took the spoils in the all-Welsh Championship clash with Wrexham at the Swansea.com Stadium.

The Swans had trailed at the break despite the visitors not having a single shot on goal, with Cameron Burgess putting a Ryan Longman cross through his own net.

The home side had a dozen shots on goal in that opening half and continued to show the greater attacking intent in the second half, and their perseverance got its reward when Vipotnik struck his 11th goal of the campaign.

And they went on to snatch the three points in dramatic fashion when Idah prodded home after Arthur Okonkwo had been unable to gather a Ben Cabango header.

The Swans had brought Melker Widell and Zeidane Inoussa into the starting XI, as they took the places of Liam Cullen and Jisung Eom respectively.

For all the talk in the build-up of whether the game constituted a derby or not, there was no shortage of frenetic energy in a lively but scrappy opening.

Swansea created the first clear opening when nice work from Inoussa saw him lay off the ball to Vipotnik, the Slovenian feinted inside one defender and saw his left-footed effort blocked by another.

But the visitors took the lead when Ryan Longman cut inside on the right and flashed a left-footed cross into the area that Burgess could only head high into his own net.

Swansea looked to respond and appealed for a penalty when Ronald went down in the box after robbing the ball off the toes of Callum Doyle, but referee Oliver Langford was not interested.

The Brazilian sent a spectacular volley over the bar a few moments later, and Widell own swerving dipping volley forced Arthur Okonkwo to tip over just before the half hour.

Goncalo Franco sent an ambitious effort over the bar when he might have been better served feeding Ronald in space to his left 

Swansea kept pressing and Burgess had a header blocked from a corner, and then hooked the rebound over the bar.

The hosts trailed at the break but made all the running at the start of the second half, Ronald sending a curling effort agonisingly wide of the far post.

Galbraith then sent Inoussa in behind the Wrexham defence, but Okonkwo was off his line sharply to beat the winger to the ball.

Matos turned to the bench and brought on Eom and Cullen as the hour mark approached, Widell and Inoussa departing the fray.

Josh Windass dragged a shot wide for Wrexham a few minutes later, while Stamenic arrowed a strike just wide of the far post as he whipped his right foot around the ball.

Galbraith has a shot deflected wide after a switch of play from Eom and the Swans persistence paid off when Vipotnik rolled his man just inside the area from a Ronald pass and saw his shot take two deflections to wrongfoot Okonkwo and roll into the net with 20 minutes to play.

The momentum was firmly with the hosts, although Nathan Broadhead's fine individual run for Wrexham ended with his shot being blocked, and they made it count as Okonkwo's miscued punch allowed Cabango to head goalward and, when the keeper failed to gather, Idah applied the finishing touch.

Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux; Ethan Galbraith, Ben Cabango (captain), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon; Marko Stamenic (Jay Fulton 78), Goncalo Franco (Malick Yalcouye 78), Melker Widell (Liam Cullen 59); Ronald, Zeidane Inoussa (Jisung Eom 59), Zan Vipotnik.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Josh Key, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Kaelan Casey, Adam Idah.

Wrexham: Arthur Okonkwo, Callum Doyle, Max Cleworth, Dominic Hyam, James McClean (captain), Josh Windass (Nathan Broadhead 76), George Thomason ( (Lewis O’Brien 68) (Oliver Rathbone 76), George Dobson, Ben Sheaf (Matty James 68), Kieffer Moore, Ryan Longman.

Substitutes: Callum Burton, Conor Coady, Dan Scarr, Sam Smith, Ryan Barnett.

Referee: Oliver Langford

Attendance: 20,368