Swansea City impressed as the Championship resumed as a extremely efficient demonstrate at the Riverside earned them a 3-0 clutch over a unlit Middlesbrough.
Liverpool loanee Rhian Brewster scored twice within the outlet 30 minutes and Andre Ayew added a penalty as the Swans tore into the hosts.
Aldo Kalulu’s wild lunge earned a yellow card on the stroke of half of-time with the Swans fortunate it changed into no longer crimson.
Middlesbrough had been extra competitive after the ruin but Swansea held agency.
Steve Cooper’s aspect, who began the season so successfully, seemed buoyed by the long ruin and fully dominated the predominant half of at the Riverside.
They hit the woodwork twice sooner than they opened the scoring, with Kalulu clipping the put up after racing determined from George Buddy’s breeze after simplest six minutes.
They had been even closer when Conor Gallagher headed Ayew’s unfriendly across aim on 15 minutes, but Brewster may per chance perhaps even simplest hit the put up from an acute perspective.
Ayew changed into inflicting Jonathan Woodgate’s aspect all styles of complications and his extremely efficient bustle produced the opener on 18 minutes as he picked out a ideal unfriendly for Brewster, who slotted house by the legs of goalkeeper Dejan Stojanovic.
That lead changed into doubled three minutes later as Brewster volleyed into the procure by the ground after Kalulu’s unfriendly, a just exact attain to discontinuance a sweeping Swans attack.
Steve Cooper’s aspect had been rampant and when Buddy clipped Gallagher within the sphere on 32 minutes, Ayew evenly dispatched the penalty to form it 3-0 and cap a wise individual demonstrate.
A amazing first half of performance by the Swans changed into simplest tarnished by Kalulu’s wild, head-high lunge on Hayden Coulson, which seen him receive upright a yellow card, though it will also without disaster had been crimson.
Buddy headed wide for the hosts, but they seemed 2nd simplest and it changed into no shock that Woodgate opted to form a double change at the ruin, introducing Patrick Roberts and Djed Spence for Ryan Shotton and Adam Clayton.
The 2nd half of changed into a some distance extra even contest of few chances, with the house substitutes impressing, but Swansea had been without disaster able to withhold agency and discipline a marker down to the other aspects chasing a Championship play-off berth.
They nearly added a fourth in damage time, but George Byers’ effort from 25-yards crashed help off the put up with subs Jordan Garrick and Bersant Celina upright unable to flip house the rebound.