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Swansea City 2-0 Watford
Tue 19:45 · Swansea.com Stadium · Championship
Full time
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SWANSEA
2-0

WATFORD
Match report
Swansea City were two up inside half an hour and Watford never got close to one back. Stephen Eustaquio, on his full debut, released Adam Idah in the eighth minute and Idah squared for Jisung Eom to tap in, Eom's second goal in as many games. On 29 minutes the pair swapped roles: Eom cut in from the left and slid a reverse pass to Idah, who finished low past Federico Ravaglia. Swansea City are top of the Championship, the only club on ten points.
The start was the game. Idah had already tested Ravaglia and Joseph Opoku had nearly forced in a rebound before the opener, and after it Watford managed only a Mattie Pollock header and a Hector Kyprianou effort in reply. Ousmane Traoré was booked on 25 minutes and withdrawn six minutes later. Watford were better after the break, as Vitor Matos conceded, but the closest anyone came to a third goal was Melker Widell's drive, beaten away by Ravaglia. Lawrence Vigouroux finished with a third clean sheet in four league games. Swansea City had 60 per cent of the ball and 18 shots to Watford's nine, eight on target to Watford's three.
What Matos said
"I'm really happy. I think we started the game really well. We started really bright, with the right energy and mindset. The intensity was spot on from the off, and our quality in the game was really good as well," the head coach said. He was honest about the hour that followed: "After that, we started to feel it a little bit with our decision-making. Everything was a little bit slower, and that gave Watford a little bit of a feeling with their counter-attacks." And on the table: "Belief is massive for us and really important. But we know the table doesn't mean anything now. There is a lot of football still to be played, and we understand that."
Kick-off followed a tribute to Kenny Jackett, the former Swansea manager and Watford player, who died in June aged 64. Matos changed two from Derby, Eustaquio for Jay Fulton and Elijah Just for Widell, then used the bench in pairs: Widell and Moussa Yeo on 57 minutes, Zan Vipotnik and Fulton around the 68th, Jenson Seelt for Stephen Welsh late on. Kyprianou, Kevin Keben and Jordan Zemura were booked as Watford chased the game. The crowd was 16,195.
The numbers after four games are the story of the season so far. Swansea City have conceded once in the league, the fewest of the 24 Championship clubs, and scored seven, the fourth-highest total, on ten points from a possible twelve. Watford drop to 13th on five after a first league defeat. Wrexham come to the Swansea.com Stadium on Saturday night, then Southampton away on Tuesday.
The match in numbers
How it happened
8′
Jisung Eom
↗ A. Idah
25′
Omar Haktab Traore
29′
A. Idah
↗ Jisung Eom
68′
Hector Kyprianou
80′
Kévin Keben Biakolo
90+1′
Jordan Zemura
The numbers
Where the shots came from
Swansea
10
8
Watford
8
1
Match insights
- 1
Swansea City took 10 shots inside the box, more than Watford's 9 attempts from every distance combined.
- 2
Swansea City's 2.71 expected goals beat Watford's 0.88.
- 3
Swansea City outshot Watford 18 to 9.
- 4
Federico Ravaglia's 9.2 was the top rating of anyone who played 30 minutes.
- 5
Swansea City had 60% of the ball to Watford's 40%.
Line-ups and ratings
The lineups
Swansea
Watford
Player ratings
Star man Federico Ravaglia
Swansea
- Jisung Eom8.6
- Adam Idah8.5
- Joseph Opoku7.7
- Lawrence Vigouroux7.6
- Filip Lissah7.6
- Stephen Welsh7.6
- Josh Tymon7.2
- Elijah Just7.2
- Jay Fulton7.2
- Josh Key7.0
- Melker Widell7.0
- Moussa Kounfolo Yeo6.7
- Jenson Seelt6.6
- Marko Stamenic6.3
- Stephen Eustaquio6.3
- Žan Vipotnik6.2
Watford
- Federico Ravaglia9.2
- Matthew Pollock7.0
- Iker Bravo7.0
- Jordan Zemura6.9
- Hector Kyprianou6.9
- Edo Kayembe6.7
- Othmane Maamma6.7
- Amin Nabizada6.6
- Branimir Mlačić6.6
- Edoardo Bove6.3
- Rocco Vata6.3
- Luca Kjerrumgaard6.3
- Kévin Keben Biakolo6.2
- Mamadou Doumbia6.2
- Omar Haktab Traore5.6
The table
| 1 | Swansea | P8 | +7 | 17 |
| 2 | West Ham | P8 | +11 | 15 |
| 19 | Portsmouth | P7 | -1 | 8 |
| 20 | Watford | P8 | -3 | 8 |
| 21 | Cardiff | P8 | -2 | 7 |
Last meetings
Watford 0-2 Swansea City, Vicarage Road
Swansea City 1-1 Watford, Swansea.com Stadium
Watford 1-0 Swansea City, Vicarage Road
Swansea City 1-0 Watford, Swansea.com Stadium
Recent form and next fixtures
Form
Swansea City
- WStoke City2-1
- DSheffield Utd0-0
- WDerby3-0
- WWatford2-0
- Wrexham
- Southampton
- Burnley
- Lincoln
Watford
- DWrexham1-1
- LPeterborough1-5
- DWest Ham1-1
- LSwansea0-2
- West Brom
- Preston
- Stoke City
- Bristol City
Sources and verification
Swansea City club match report, team news and the club's published Vitor Matos reaction, 1 September 2026. · · Watford sheet and the Jackett tribute: Sky Sports match pages. Events, standings and form: API-Football.
Sources: swanseacity.comswanseacity.comswanseacity.comskysports.com
How we verified this
- primary URLs live on swanseacity.com, read 2 September 02:20
- score 2-0 and scorers match the club report; the club times Idah's goal at 28, API-Football and Sky at 29, and the page follows the blob that draws the timeline
- attendance 16,195 and referee Edward Duckworth as the club lists them
- substitution minutes aligned to the API-Football events blob
- table positions and the goals-against rank read from the refreshed API-Football standings after the Tuesday round
- API-Football filled the team statistics for this fixture at 03:53 on 3 September; the possession, shots and shots on target in the prose are that blob, the same provider as the panel
