Swansea City 3-4 Birmingham City: Blues strike twice late on to clinch dramatic victory

Swansea City suffered late heartbreak as Auston Trusty headed home deep into injury-time to earn Birmingham City a 4-3 win in south Wales.

The Swans completely controlled the first-half but fell behind to Scott Hogan's early penalty. Joel Piroe and Liam Cullen struck in quick succession to put the hosts ahead before the Blues equalised 10 minutes into the second-half through Tahith Chong.

But Piroe capitalised on a mistake from John Ruddy soon after to notch what was his 12th goal of the season as Swansea looked destined to secure victory until Lukas Jutkiewicz headed home in the 90th minute to set-up a tense finish - with Trusty then heading beyond Andy Fisher from a corner to earn the away side a dramatic win.

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Russell Martin made three changes to the side that started the 1-1 draw with Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road a fortnight earlier. Fisher and Olivier Ntcham replaced Steven Benda and Joe Allen who missed out through injury while Nathan Wood came in for Harry Darling.

The Swans fully dictated proceedings from the outset and created an early opportunity to bulge the net as Ntcham played Piroe through on goal, although Ruddy did well to smother the Dutchman's strike.

Matt Grimes then split the Birmingham defence with a sublime pass that put Cullen into a one-on-one position, although, once again, Ruddy came to the rescue of the visitors with a vital save.

It was just the start Martin and his coaching staff will have wanted. One of energy, control and purpose.

And then, out of nowhere, disaster struck.

Ben Cabango took a huge risk with a header back to Fisher, and Reda Khadra took full advantage by pouncing on the