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Swansea dented Bristol City’s dreams of reaching the Championship play-offs as Josh Tymon scored the only goal in a 1-0 win at Ashton Gate on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tymon scored a goal in the 55th minute, after goalkeeper Max O\u2019 Leary\u00a0<\/strong>could only parry a Goncalo Franco shot into his path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bristol City couldn\u2019t secure a goal in the first half because of excellent saves from Lawrence Vigouroux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I see Bristol City as genuine play-off contenders.
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Liam Manning is a brilliant coach, and they should back him long-term.
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This could turn out to be a very important result for us,” Swansea manager Luke Williams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swansea dented Bristol City’s dreams of reaching the Championship play-offs as Josh Tymon scored the only goal in a 1-0 win at Ashton Gate on Sunday. Tymon scored a goal in the 55th minute, after goalkeeper Max O\u2019 Leary\u00a0could only parry a Goncalo Franco shot into his path. Bristol City couldn\u2019t secure a goal in the first half because of excellent saves from Lawrence Vigouroux. “I see Bristol City as genuine play-off contenders. Liam Manning is a brilliant coach, and they should back him long-term. This could turn out to be a very important result for us,” Swansea manager Luke Williams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league-football-news"],"yoast_head":"\nSwansea destroys Bristol\u2019s dreams of reaching Playoffs - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bristol city has lost the chance to compete at the Champions League Play offs due to disappointing defeat by Swansea. read more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/swansea-destroys-bristols-dreams-of-reaching-playoffs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swansea destroys Bristol\u2019s dreams of reaching Playoffs - 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