Swansea City 0-0 Birmingham City: Flat Championship encounter ends goalless

Swansea City turned in a flat performance as they played out a 0-0 draw with Birmingham City in south Wales.

The Blues had the better of the chances at the Swansea.com Stadium, with Tahith Chong, Maxime Colin, Juninho Bacuna and Scott Hogan all going close. Hannes Wolf and Joel Piroe had the best efforts for Russell Martin's men who lacked energy throughout having put in a real effort at Peterborough United on Wednesday night.

The positive saw Swansea keep their 14th league clean sheet of the campaign, with the two-week break set to be hugely beneficial ahead of the derby contest with Cardiff City on Saturday, April 2.

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Flynn Downes was omitted from the squad as a precautionary measure due to a minor injury, with Finley Burns starting in place of the midfielder. The only other alteration from the dramatic 3-2 triumph over Peterborough United saw Olivier Ntcham start, although Korey Smith was reinstated at the last minute after Jamie Paterson sustained an injury in the warm-up.

Swansea dominated the ball and were typically confident in playing out from the back. And their patience should have been rewarded after just six minutes when Ntcham played Wolf through on goal, although the Austrian lacked the killer instinct to shoot at goal from an acute angle.

On his 250th appearance for the club, Kyle Naughton enjoyed plenty of freedom in the middle of the pitch, carrying the ball into the Birmingham half on numerous occasions. But it was Lee Bowyer's men who should have gone ahead as Chong raced through on goal before squaring to Bacuna who somehow blazed over from just six yards out.

It was a real