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<\/p>\nSwansea piled the pressure on beleaguered Norwich boss Liam Manning as Zan Vipotnik’s double secured a 2-1 Championship home win.<\/p>\n
Slovenia striker Vipotnik had not scored in his six previous games for club and country.<\/p>\n
But Vipotnik rediscovered his goal touch with two superb strikes, taking his season’s tally to eight and lifting the pressure off manager Alan Sheehan with a first win in four games.<\/p>\n
Jovon Makama equalised from close-range before half-time, but the Canaries are in free fall after five successive defeats with further question marks over whether Manning can turn around their fortunes.<\/p>\n
The former Bristol City boss had to endure chants of ‘We want Manning out’ and ‘Sacked in the morning’ from fans who had a made a 600-mile round trip from Norfolk as the contest drifted towards its conclusion.<\/p>\n
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\n Zan Vipotnik of Swansea City celebrates scoring the opening goal<\/p>\n
Norwich started the day in the bottom three, five points behind Swansea after no wins in seven games – two draws and five defeats.<\/p>\n
Swansea profited from their first attack after six minutes as Marko Stamenic powered through midfield.<\/p>\n
Stamenic found Vipotnik, recalled to the starting line-up following the midweek home defeat to QPR, and the Slovenia international lashed high past Canaries goalkeeper Vladan Kovacevic at his near post.<\/p>\n
Ethan Galbraith fired over from 20 yards and Ronald was inches from doubling Swansea’s lead midway through the half.<\/p>\n
The influential Stamenic and Liam Cullen combined for Ronaldo to rifle a shot that Kovacevic touched onto a post before the ball rebounded into the goalkeeper’s grateful grasp.<\/p>\n
Norwich had scored only once in their previous four games, but the Canaries’ threat grew close to the break.<\/p>\n
Kenny McLean went close after being allowed to advance through the heart of the home defence and home goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux stretched to deny Mirko Topic.<\/p>\n
Parity was restored three minutes before the break as Josh Sargent was slipped through and beat Vigouroux to the loose ball.<\/p>\n
Sargent turned it across goal and Makama got there in front of Ben Cabango to bundle home his third goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Norwich introduced Jeffrey Schlupp at half-time and the former Leicester and Crystal Palace winger quickly brought a save from Vigouroux.<\/p>\n
Swansea supporters were getting restless but a free-flowing move ended with Josh Tymon crossing into a crowded six-yard box and Kovacevic gathering under pressure.<\/p>\n
It lifted Swansea and after 69 minutes Eom Ji-sung released Vipotnik who, with no white shirts for company, took aim from 25 yards and beat Kovacevic’s full-length dive with a vicious shot.<\/p>\n
Substitute Mathias Kvistgaarden sent a header wide, but it was another fruitless afternoon for the Canaries who have only Sheffield Wednesday below them in table.<\/p>\n
The managers<\/p>\n
Swansea’s Alan Sheehan:<\/p>\n
“He was exceptional, they’re high level goals, and you’ve seen a player that’s really enjoying his football.<\/p>\n
“He was a livewire, led the line. There are things that we want more of and for him to be relentless within that.<\/p>\n
“But in terms of scoring goals, he gave two moments of real quality and that clinical edge we have been missing in certain games.”<\/p>\n
Swansea’s win was their first in four games and lifted them to 13th, three points from the play-offs ahead of a midweek Carabao Cup visit from Manchester City.<\/p>\n
Norwich’s Liam Manning:<\/p>\n
“I don’t fear anything, it is what it is. I’ve had really good support from Ben (Knapper, sporting director) and the people above me at the club.<\/p>\n
“We’re in a bad spot and I’m obviously part of it. I’m enjoying being there, but I want to change it. I want to keep fighting.”<\/p>\n
On the fans’ clear anger both in the closing stages and at the final whistle, Manning said: “As long as it’s not personal, if it’s professional, I get it.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never shied away from that. We’re in an industry that it’s about getting results and we’re not. So I totally get why people would be frustrated, annoyed, angry.<\/p>\n
“It’s not the first time I’ve had it and, trust me, I hurt as much as anybody in terms of when I go home and we’re not performing well and not getting the results.<\/p>\n
“The only way (you can get out of it) is by showing passion, showing fight, taking responsibility, and not hiding from it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea piled the pressure on beleaguered Norwich boss Liam Manning as Zan Vipotnik’s double secured a 2-1 Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-252460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}