Swansea City 0-2 Burnley: Visitors breeze past sluggish Swans in dent to Sheehan job hopes

If Alan Sheehan is serious about building a case to become the next permanent boss at Swansea City, this defeat will be seen as a disappointing blow.

Not so much for the result, but the performance itself.

Sheehan had said this week his side would need to produce their best to topple a Burnley side that are very much in the conversation for automatic promotion, largely thanks to a well-publicised stingy defence.

Unfortunately, they didn’t really come close, instead producing a showing devoid of the sort of energy and intensity that had previously underpinned what’s still been a largely successful interim tenure.

Josh Brownhill was on hand to give the visitors the lead inside five minutes after Josh Key’s error, before Jaiden Anthony doubled the lead midway inside a first half where Burnley frankly didn't have to get out of second gear.

Swansea simply couldn’t get near their opponents for much of the afternoon, although Ronald could well have prevented a 28th Burnley clean sheet had he managed to guide his free header on target deep into the second half.

But few could really argue that the visitors weren’t good value for all three points in what was arguably the weakest performance of Sheehan’s interim tenure.

Swansea were, at one point 12 points clear of the dropzone. Results elsewhere mean that lead now stands at six heading into the international break.

It remains to be seen whether Sheehan will still be in the hot seat when Swansea head to Leeds United later this month, but Swansea’s infatuation with transition looks likely to continue for the foreseeable future.

The club confirmed this week that Andy Coleman is set to step down from his position as chairman at the end of the season, a move that has once again teed the