McKenna I Really Enjoyed It, a Tough Game, a Proper Game
Boss Kieran McKenna says he thoroughly enjoyed the Blues’ hard-fought 2-1 win at Swansea City, a proper, tough game he felt required a really good performance from his side in challenging wet conditions.
Nathan Broadhead scored his third goal in three games to give the Blues the lead, Jerry Yates netted a leveller for the Swans before Conor Chaplin netted what would prove to be the winning goal 10 minutes before the break. Town put in a gritty second-half display to claim the three points and their second away win in four days.
“I really enjoyed it, it was a tough game, a proper game and it took a really, really good performance to come out on the right side of it,” McKenna said.
“I thought we showed all the best bits of ourselves at different stages of the game. I thought we played some really good football at times in very tough conditions.
“We played some brave football and built through the pitch well and created some good opportunities from it and scored some good goals.
“I thought our organisation to limit them, certainly in free play in terms of opportunities against, was good and, of course, the biggest bit was the commitment and the effort and the resilience in difficult conditions against a good team was absolutely outstanding. Very pleased and proud with what we gave today.”
Regarding Chaplin’s goal, a trademark Town team effort involving Cameron Burgess and then Leif Davis, McKenna added: “A great goal. One that we work on and really executed well. Cameron, you can see the benefit of the left-footedness that we’ve missed over the last six weeks when he was away from an attacking point of view, to play the pass.
And Leif’s first touch is great and the movement in the box is great and there’s no one better stepping onto it than Conor.”
Town had chances to give themselves breathing space but were unable to take them and saw the game out with a solid defensive display after the break.
“I think in that sort of game state, you know the next goal would be really, really important,” he continued. “We knew that at half-time.
“We wanted to come out and try and stay on the front foot as much as possible and try and stay brave and positive in terms of creating chances.
“And I thought for the first part of the second half we did that and we had some good opportunities, but we weren’t able to take one.
