A welcome return to winning ways for our U21s today at Landore.  We fielded just 4 players from  Monday’s youthful starting XI against Barnsley.  Morgan Bates missed out due to a groin injury picked up in that game, so Tom Woodward was pushed forward into the centre forward role, flanked by Josh Pescatore and Caleb Demery.   Our central defence and central midfield looked so much stronger today with Iestyn Jones, Dan Watts and Harlan Perry available.  Tom Searle, who has been absent all season through injury, was named as one of the substitutes.

Line-up (4-3-3): Tom Wright; Billy Clarke (s – Tom Searle 61m), Iestyn Jones, Blair McKenzie, Callum Deacon; Harlan Perry; Dan Watts (captain) (s – Milo Robinson 46m), Yori Griffith; Josh Pescatore (s – Josiah Kallicharan 32m), Tom Woodward (s – Aimar Govea 46m), Caleb Demery.

Unused subs: Joe Collins (g/k).

We got off to a perfect start, Woodward robbing Colchester’s statuesque centre half Abidekun on the edge of the Colchester area.  Tom worked his way into the box, passed to Yori Griffith who set up Josh Pescatore in plenty of space to strike cleanly put the Swans one up on 3 minutes.

Four minutes later we...