Swansea City vs Luton Town. Sky Bet Championship.
Swansea.com StadiumAttendance16,414.
Swansea City 2
- G Franco (38th minute)
- M Peart-Harris (91st minute)
Luton Town 1
- C Morris (5th minute)
- J Johnson (sent off 68th minute)
Swansea City 2-1 Luton Town: Myles Peart-Harris scores late Swans winner
Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship match between Swansea City and Luton Town at the Swansea.com Stadium on Sunday; Myles Peart-Harris scores stoppage-time winner against 10-player Hatters.
Sunday 29 December 2024 18:30, UK
Swansea piled on the away-day misery for Luton as Myles Peart-Harris struck a stoppage-time header to secure a 2-1 victory for the hosts.
The Hatters seemed as if they would survive the 68th-minute dismissal of Joe Johnson to end a run of eight straight away defeats in the Sky Bet Championship.
But Peart-Harris, on as a 77th-minute substitute, bulleted home a header at the start of seven minutes of added time to move Swansea up to ninth in the Championship - four points from the play-offs.
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Carlton Morris had earlier accepted a late Christmas gift from Swansea goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux to put Luton ahead after five minutes before Goncalo Franco levelled matters before half-time.
Luton had not won on the road since beating Millwall in mid-September, but Morris gave them early hope of ending that awful run.
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Vigouroux tried to lift the ball over his head. but the keeper's kick went straight to the Hatters striker, who had time to set up a tidy volley for his seventh goal of the season.
Thomas Kaminski was also in charitable mood at the other end in spilling a Matt Grimes cross, allowing Eom Ji-sung to stab against a post before gratefully collecting at the second attempt.
Swansea built pressure without testing Kaminski as Mark McGuinness snuffed out Ronald's cross with Liam Cullen waiting to pounce in front of goal.
Eom went down in the penalty area caught by Tahith Chong's outstretched leg, Cullen headed wide from a well-worked corner routine, and Ronald dragged a shot when well placed.
The pressure eventually told from a 38th-minute goalmouth scramble, with Franco again the right place having opened his Swansea account on Boxing Day.
Cullen had an effort blocked and Kaminski pushed out Ronald's follow-up effort, but Franco beat a posse of Hatters defenders to the loose ball from two yards out.
Ronaldo planted Eom's cross onto the roof of the net, and Swansea had another penalty appeal turned down after Florian Bianchini went down theatrically under Tom Holmes' challenge.
McGuinness failed to make proper contact with a half-chance as Luton sought to profit from the withdrawal of the influential Franco, who left the action through injury and in a flood of tears.
There was an even clearer sight of goal at the opposite end when Harry Darling was left unmarked from Grimes' free-kick and Kaminski leapt to his right to push the point-blank header to safety.
Swansea put the Luton goal under siege after Johnson, cautioned in the first half for dragging down Ronald, suffered the same fate for stopping Eom's burst.
Cullen drove wide before Grimes swung over a cross that Darling headed across goal for Peart-Harris to deliver a timely second Swansea goal since joining on loan from Brentford - and leave Luton only four points above the relegation places.
The managers
Swansea's Luke Williams:
"[Franco] was in tears because he wanted to play. But he has four teeth in a completely different position to where they were when the game kicked off.
"He is not crying because his teeth have been rearranged. He is crying because he wants to carry on playing.
"He was desperate to stay on but he was dizzy and he couldn't close his mouth properly. He has been taken to hospital but I will try to see him now."
Luton's Rob Edwards:
"I do think it's a little bit unfair. The lads have given everything but it's a challenge logistically. It's tradition in this country at this time of the year, but two away games makes it more difficult.
"The referee's got to be sure [about the red]. We've gone in and spoken to him and he will stand by his decision.
"Joe is trying to get out of the way and I don't think there's any contact.
"I've looked at it back a few times. It's not Joe's fault, it's just an unfortunate moment."