Swansea City 3 Doncaster Rovers 0: Rovers in freefall as O’Driscoll bemoans luck on injury-front

Six defeats in their last seven matches have seen them slip to 17th and they were no match for Swansea on Saturday.

Sean O’Driscoll admitted his Doncaster side were beaten by the better team. He said: “It was difficult. We have matched Swansea in the past but we were no match for them here today.

“It was a struggle with 13 players out. But the one saving grace was the players kept going.

“There are 14 games to go but I haven’t got a team. We have been pulling rabbits out of the hat all season but I didn’t have a Plan B today.

“Three of my substitutes were centre-halves. What am I going to do with them? I must have run over a black cat somewhere.”

Swansea chief Brendan Rodgers was quick to praise his team and singled out striker Luke Moore.

Scott Sinclair opened the scoring after just six minutes before Ashley Williams doubled the advantage and Moore netted his first goal for the club in the 78th minute.

Rodgers said: “A goalscorer not scoring is like a hungry person without food. It’s been difficult for Luke but he has kept working hard and has the trust of his team-mates.

“But the goal should relieve the pressure on him. Hopefully it will give his confidence a boost and he can kick on.

“The performance was excellent and it shows the progress we have made. I thought Ashley Williams and Alan Tate were outstanding but there is always room for improvement. It was good to get an early goal after their result in midweek. Scoring then was probably a setback mentally for them.”

Swansea City: De Vries, Rangel, Williams, Tate, Taylor, Dyer, Allen, Gower (Britton 41), Sinclair, Dobbie (Pratley 76), Moore (Beattie 83). Unused substitutes: Ma-Kalambay, Van der Gun, Serran, Richards.

Doncaster Rovers: Sullivan, Mills, Thomas (Kilgallon 73), Friend, Shiels, Hird (Webster 86), Oster, Moussa, Keegan (Souza 86), Wilson, Euell. Unused substitutes: Gary Woods, Coppinger.

Referee: P Miller (Bedfordshire).

Man of the match: Luke Moore.