MATCH REPORT: Swindon (1) Bradford City (0)

Swindon won their first game for ten matches after Jonny Williams headed home his tenth goal of the season late on to record a 1-0 win over Bradford. Total Sport’s Joe Acklam reports from the County Ground.

Both sides were frustrated by the opposing goalkeeper during a first half which ebbed and flowed between end-to-end drama and passive.

As time was running out Williams willed himself onto the end of a Remeao Hutton cross to give Swindon a morale boosting win.

The late header sees Swindon end their nine-match winless run and lifts them up a place into 11th in League Two.

Jody Morris opted to make two changes to the team which drew with Barrow AFC three days ago as Charlie Austin was rested, and George McEachran missed out through injury and Dylan Kadji and Luke Jephcott came in to replace them.

Swindon could have taken an early lead when Hutton whipped in a free-kick from the right and seemed to have picked out Jephcott six yards out, but he failed to make a clean contact.

Richie Smallwood’s composure let him down as Tom Clayton steered a cross to the edge of the area where the midfielder charged onto it, but he rushed his shot and lashed it well over the top.

A long ball by Swindon quickly came back at them as Jamie Walker got the ball in space and hit a fierce shot from the edge of the area which Sol Brynn somehow managed to catch.

League Two top goal scorer Andy Cook had the chance to add to his tally midway through the half when Scott Banks picked him out in the middle, but his scuffed shot bounced into the floor in front of him and went tamely behind.

Williams caught Thierry Nevers in possession and fed Jephcott, his mishit shot went into the path of Rushian Hepburn-Murphy, but his missed the ball as he looked to shoot, and it rolled to safety.

With five minutes remaining in the half Bradford took a short corner and Luke Hendrie played a cross to the far post where Romoney Crichlow got up, but didn’t get enough power behind his header and Brynn got down quickly to make the save from close range.

Just before half-time Williams and Hepburn-Murphy combined to force the ball into Jacob Wakeling, he set the ball back to Saidou Khan at the edge of the box and Harry Lewis had to be at his very best to deny him.

Swindon had a good chance straight after the restart when Frazer Blake-Tracy swung in a cross from deep, Crichlow took a wild swing at it and sent the ball towards his own goal, but Jephcott was not quite switched on enough to get to the loose ball first.

Jephcott was denied again early in the second half as Blake-Tracy played in a low ball, which was dummied by Wakeling, the on-loan striker fired high but Lewis got up well to tip the ball over the top.

Williams tested Lewis from a corner as he fired the ball under the crossbar, Bradford’s ‘keeper flapped at the cross and it fell towards Hepburn-Murphy, but bounced off him and behind.

Nine minutes from time Hutton checked back inside and lifted a cross into the middle, Williams steamed through a crowd of bodies and thundered a header into the back of the net from six yards out.