Swansea City 1-2 Bristol City: Swans still searching for first Championship win after limp defeat

Swansea City are still looking for a first Championship win of the season, after going down to defeat at the hands of Bristol City.

Liam Cullen opened the scoring for the hosts after just 10 minutes, slotting home for his first goal of the season in a half that saw Bristol City have three goals chalked off.

But the visitors were eventually rewarded for their dominance after the break, courtesy of goals from Mark Sykes and Sam Bell.

Ben Cabango hit the post midway through the second half, but anything other than defeat would have flattered the Swans, who followed up a largely positive end to the summer transfer window with a worryingly limp performance here.

It means Michael Duff, who made two changes from the defeat to Preston North End, is still searching for his first league win in charge.

Indeed, it's the first time the Swans have failed to win any of their opening five games of a league campaign for 32 years.

The games certainly don't get any easier either, with the small matter of a South Wales Derby against Cardiff City awaiting his side after the international break.

Make no mistake, barring a reasonable spell in the final 10-15 minutes, where they were perhaps unlucky not to be awarded a penalty after Harry Darling's header appeared to strike a Bristol City arm, Swansea were second best for much of the afternoon.

Indeed, Sykes had the ball in the net after just five minutes, touching home Bell's cross after Swansea were caught sloppy in possession, only for the assistant referee to raise his flag for offside.

Jason Knight then headed wide from a corner as the visitors asked most of the questions in the opening 10 minutes.

However, it was the Swans who broke the deadlock courtesy of a moment of brilliance from