Piroe’s priceless for Martin as he brushes off pen miss

JOEL PIROE underlined why Swansea were right to turn a deaf ear to Leeds on deadline day.

The Dutch striker brushed off a 15th-minute saved penalty by Seny Dieng to calmly stroke the ball past the QPR goalkeeper six minutes later.

It was enough to give the Swans their first home win of the season.

Leeds made late moves for Piroe as the window was closing and Swans head coach Russell Martin said: “We are really lucky to have him.

“The best bit of transfer business we did was to keep him, for sure. He contributed the goal and the way he has dealt with all the speculation and all the noise has been incredible.”

Piroe’s penalty effort after handball by Jimmy Dunne was decent enough but Dieng produced an exceptional save.

But when Piroe was set up by Ollie Cooper, his head had cleared and he found the net with ease.

It might have been different if Swans defender Ben Cabango had been given a red card when he pulled back Chris Willock after 30 seconds.

“Cabango’s a lucky boy,” said QPR boss Mick Beale.

“Chris has been an honest boy. I think if Chris falls over, he’s gone.

“He didn’t and we shouldn’t be asking a player to fall over because we don’t like that in our game.”

SWANSEA: Benda 7; Wood 6, Naughton 6, Cabango 6; Sorinola 5 (Cullen 60; (Stevens 63, 6)), Allen 7 (Cundle 74,

6), Grimes 7, Manning 6; O Cooper 6 (Fulton 74, 5), Paterson 5 (Oko-flex 60, 6); Piroe 8

QPR: Dieng 6; Laird 6, Dickie 6 (Balogun 81), Dunne 5, Paal 4; Johanse 6, Field 6 (Iroegbunam 70, 5), Dozzell 6 (Adomah 70, 6); Willock 6 (Armstrong 81), Chair 6, Dykes 5 (Roberts 60, 6)

STAR MAN: Joel Piroe - Unruffled by squandered penalty, showed calm with decisive finish.

REF: Oliver Langford 7