Nottingham Forest 1 Swans 1 - Ayew Scores First Swans Goal
Andre Ayew scored the first goal of his Swansea career to earn the Swans a 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest at the City Ground, the third 1-1 draw of the pre-season campaign so far.
Less than 24 hours after a Swans side drew 1-1 against Reading they were back in action again against another Championship side in Nottingham Forest.
It was a much changed Swans side from the team that drew at Reading and I think much nearer the side that will play in two weeks in the opening league fixture against Chelsea. The back five (including Fab in goal) is certainly the back five that I think Monk sees as his first choice and with Cork and Ki in midfield then that has a familiar feel about it as well.
SWANS: Lukasz Fabianski, Kyle Naughton, Federico Fernandez, Ashley Williams (capt), Neil Taylor, Jack Cork, Ki Sung-Yueng, Matt Grimes, Wayne Routledge, Andre Ayew, Eder.
SUBS: Josh Vickers, Raheem Hanley, Josh Sheehan, Modou Barrow.
It was another goalless first half for the Swans, the same as against Reading, but this time around it was us who took the lead through summer signing Ayew. He beat Matt Mills to head on a Naughton pass and he ran into the box and fired a low shot past former Swansea keeper Dorus De Vries.
The lead though lasted less than ten minutes when Tesche wrong footed Fabianski and scored from close range to pull the home side level.
Unlike the Reading game at 1-1 it became a match of few notable incidents although Eder did have the ball in the back of the net towards the end only for it to be disallowed for handball
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