Swansea City reached the first landmark in their season as they played league game number 10 of the campaign at Blackburn Rovers over the weekend.
For Luke Williams’ team, the record at this point offers a sharp illustration of what they have got right and where things are going wrong.
Swansea have conceded just seven Championship goals so far, a record bettered only by two teams who have just come down from the Premier League, Burnley (four goals conceded) and Sheffield United (five).
But at the other end of the field, it is a much bleaker story.
Swansea have scored only eight league goals in 2024-25. After Cardiff City’s weekend thrashing of Plymouth Argyle, no team in the second tier has managed fewer goals than Swansea, who are the division’s joint-lowest scorers alongside Preston North End.
Sheffield Wednesday, who host Swansea on Tuesday, may be thinking that should they open the scoring at Hillsborough, they will be well on their way to securing three points against Williams’ side.
There were question marks about the goalscoring power within Swansea’s squad right from the start this season and, as yet, they have not been answered.
Nevertheless, Williams’ players are keeping the faith.
“The strikers we have are more than capable, but something is just not quite clicking, so as a team we have really got work on it on the training pitch,” said Swansea defender Josh Key.
“We work so hard every day that it’s got to click at some point.”
Right-back Key was one of Swansea’s most threatening players as they went down 1-0 at Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, which says much about their struggles in the final third.
The good news for Swansea is that their defensive successes represent significant progress, given that the Welsh side have had something of a soft underbelly ever since Steve Cooper departed in 2021.
“We have got to take the positives from that,” Key said.
“Our defensive record is very good, so we can only go up from here once the goals start going in.”