Swansea beat Millwall to stretch winning run
A 1-0 win at Millwall on Tuesday 13 October made it 4W for Swansea and kept them top of the Championship on 23 points.
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Swansea won again. The 1-0 result at Millwall on Tuesday 13 October was their fourth straight victory in the Championship, and it leaves them first on 23 points from 10 games.
The table makes pleasant reading for anyone at the club. 7 wins, 2 draws, 1 defeat. 16 goals scored, 7 conceded, a goal difference of +9. Only one side in the division has beaten them.
What separates this run from a good start is the shape of it. The form line reads LWWWW, and the single loss came before the current 4W stretch. Since then: four matches, four wins, no dropped points.
Next up is West Ham at home on Saturday 17 October, matchday 11. On paper it is the kind of fixture a leader is expected to win. That expectation is the whole problem.
Behind them, Middlesbrough sit second on 21 points with a goal difference of +6, two adrift. Birmingham and West Brom are level on 17 in third and fourth, and West Ham are fifth on 16 despite a goal difference of +11 that is better than anyone's outside the top two. Stoke round out the top six on 16.
None of those clubs is chasing a mirage. A two-point cushion at this stage is a cushion, not a gap, and a home defeat on Saturday 17 October would hand the initiative straight back.
So the question is simple enough. Can Swansea keep winning when the fixture list stops being kind?
Elsewhere in the scoring charts, William Lankshear of Middlesbrough leads the way on 8, ahead of Cyle Larin of Southampton on 7. Mohamed Toure of Norwich and Jack Moylan of Cardiff have 5 each, with Jarrod Bowen of West Ham on 5.
The table, for now, belongs to Swansea.