since joining from Zulte Waregem,<\/a> finished coolly from 35 yards after Leganes keeper Raul Fernandez had come out of his area.<\/p>\nOpoku’s precise effort gave Swansea a deserved win as they dominated possession for long spells against their Spanish second-tier opponents.<\/p>\n
When the home side did lose the ball, Vitor Matos’ desire to play a pressing game was in evidence as his players hunted to win it back.<\/p>\n
Even so it was Leganes who had the first chance of the day, with Alvaro Tejero a little wasteful as he shot over Lawrence Vigouroux’s bar.<\/p>\n
With that Swansea carried most of the threat, Elijah Just dragging a presentable chance wide before Marko Stamenic’s long-range drive drew a diving save from Fernandez.<\/p>\n
The goal came shortly before half-time, after Leganes defender Gonzalo Lopez played a weak back pass as he was chased down by Adam Idah.<\/p>\n
Fernandez denied Idah with a sliding clearance, but Opoku accepted the invitation to guide the ball into the empty net with a precise first-time effort.<\/p>\n
Opoku might have had a second after the break, after more good work from Idah and Just, but this time the winger’s drive curled a yard wide of the far post, while Alejandro Iranzo wasted Leganes’ best chance when his chip was saved by Lawrence Vigouroux. <\/p>\n
Swansea largely maintained their control despite the inevitable flurry of second-half substitutes, with Zan Vipotnik making a welcome appearance from the bench having missed the previous three friendlies through injury.<\/p>\n
Last season’s Championship top scorer got 16 minutes under his belt before Swansea return to competitive action when they host Birmingham City in the Carabao Cup on Saturday, 8 August (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea City ended their pre-season preparations with a 1-0 home victory over Leganes courtesy of a long-range strike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-723286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}