Swansea City's Ryan Manning celebrates with team-mates Image: Alamy Stock Photo Swansea City's Ryan Manning celebrates with team-mates Image: Alamy Stock Photo RYAN MANNING’S superb long-range strike was enough to seal all three points for Swansea as they overcame Preston 1-0 in the Championship today, leaving the Welsh club 17th in the table.
Manning’s 51st-minute strike was reward for a much-improved display after the break from Russell Martin’s men.Alan Browne, Joe Rafferty and Greg Cunningham all started for Preston, while Sean Maguire was an unused sub. Elsewhere, Scott Hogan’s second goal in three games helped Birmingham put breathing room between themselves and the Sky Bet Championship relegation zone with a 2-1 victory over Barnsley at St Andrew’s.Ex-Ireland U21 international Jordan Shipley’s thunderbolt could not prevent Coventry from suffering a 2-1 defeat to QPR in the Championship today.In League One, it was a good day for Will Keane, as his brace helped Wigan earn a 3-2 victory over Gillingham in a game that James McClean also started.
Finally, in League Two, Stephen McLaughlin was on target as promotion-chasing Mansfield beat Barrow 3-1.DIFFERENTLY Get closer to the stories that matter with exclusive analysis, insight and debate in The42 Membership.Stephen Quinn and John-Joe O’Toole also started for the visitors, while Harry Charsley came off the bench.N.B. We covered the earlier Championship games in a separate piece here.
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