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Ian Mitchelmore

How Swansea City are trouncing Leeds United, Aston Villa, Norwich City and their other Championship rivals

Swansea City have given more minutes to players aged 23 and under than any other side in the Championship so far this term.

Several key first team players left the Liberty Stadium last summer while three more departed in January.

It's meant Graham Potter has had to put his faith in a number of young guns, several of which have come through the club's academy.

And figures from @prospectwatch1 reveal that Potter has given players currently aged 23 and under a total of 23,448 minutes of game time in the Championship so far in the 2018/19 campaign.

This is over 4,000 minutes more than the next best side Brentford who have given players aged 23 and under 19,380 minutes of action this season.

Preston, Bristol City, Blackburn and Reading are the best of the rest while relegated Bolton Wanderers (4,687 minutes), Stoke City (4,758 minutes) and Sheffield United (4,826 minutes) are the three worst sides in the division when it comes to giving youth players regular game time.

A total of 13 players currently aged 23 and under have featured for Swansea this season.

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Of those, academy product Connor Roberts has played the most minutes in the league with 3,686.

Cameron Carter-Vickers, Joe Rodon, Declan John, Cian Harries, Bersant Celina, Daniel James, Matt Grimes, George Byers, Yan Dhanda, Joel Asoro, Courtney Baker-Richardson and Oli McBurnie are the others to be included.

The figure also includes the minutes played by Barrie McKay in the opening half of the season prior to his 24th birthday on December 30.

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