Swansea City's travel sickness continues with frustrating Hull City defeat

Swansea City's away day woes continued courtesy of a frustrating defeat at Hull City.

A brainless handball from Ben Cabango allowed former Swan Oli McBurnie to give the host the lead, before Zan Vipotnik spurned two glorious chances to level.

Regan Slater's strike doubled the lead before half-time, but Swansea improved after the break and pulled one back through Liam Cullen's header.

But they couldn't find a second goal to restore parity, leaving Vitor Matos once again empty-handed.

This was Swansea's seventh defeat in eight outings on the road, and their form away from the Swansea.com Stadium remains a grave concern.

The fact Swansea created more than enough to take something from this game will likely be of scant consolation.

They now sit 16th in the Championship table ahead of another journey to Watford next week.

A largely forgettable opening 20 minutes yielded little excitement for either side, but this contest would leap into life courtesy of a proverbial brain fart from Wales international Cabango, who inexplicably held out his hand as a Hull freekick was delivered into the box.

McBurnie duly rolled home the resulting spot kick, in a moment that largely set the tone for Swansea's afternoon.

The hosts could have doubled their lead through another former Swan just moments later, with Lawrence Vigouroux getting down well to deny Kyle Joseph after he'd got in behind a creaky visiting backline.

But Swansea grew into the contest, and on half an hour were left wondering how they weren't level.

Josh Tymon's low ball across the box was inch perfect for Zan Vipotnik, who even without his recent goalscoring exlploits would have surely been expected to bury the resulting chance.

Somehow, from around six yards, and unmarked, he