Michael Laudrup delighted at historic Swansea City win against Chelsea
MICHAEL Laudrup could not hide his delight after Swansea City took a giant stride towards Wembley with a sensational 2-0 win at Chelsea.
Laudrup's men chalked up one of the finest results in Swansea's history to put themselves within touching distance of the Capital One Cup final.
Swansea's boss admitted in the build-up that he would have accepted a narrow defeat at Stamford Bridge provided his team scored an away goal.
What he got was an unexpected two-goal advantage thanks to strikes from Michu and Danny Graham - and a huge defensive effort.
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"Of course I am delighted," Laudrup said.
"We have already this season achieved some historic results for the club, at Anfield and the Emirates, but to win at the European champions from last season is something very special.
"We try to have the ball - most games we have it more than the opponent - but it would be unrealistic to think we could come here and have it as much.
"We knew we had to have a very good performance without the ball and see if we could score the away goal chances that came our way.
"Obviously I am delighted that we could do that, the two goals were from mistakes by a great player but that just shows no-one's perfect."
Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez added: "We could have scored two or three goals in the first half and one or two in the second. We made two mistakes and conceded two goals.
"Any player can make a mistake. We tried to do things after that and the team created a lot of chances. In football it can happen."
Comments
by abertawejack
Thursday, January 10 2013, 8:09PM
“Now comes the hard part maintaining this standard, unbelievable football against Chelsea as the most I hoped for was a draw, yet my heart was telling me we'd take them and take them we did. massive braggers rights was bestowed on our loyal fans, they must surely have been ecstatic on returning home, sore throats as well. the next encounter will be Brilliant, yet I know very well that our Team along with our fabulous manager, will be up for it no matter who is playing for Chelsea.
C'mon u SwanssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssYEEHAA.”
by Bredsdorff
Thursday, January 10 2013, 4:17PM
“Great game! 1st half defending was a delight to watch. Everyone was working to keep Chelsea from getting into to the goal area. Pressing with defensive awareness. No hard tackling, just pushing up and getting in the way of the deadly attacks from the Champions League title holders. I love it when football is played with a collective intention. Sure they got lucky to score twice. But both goals showed great reaction and decisiveness on Swansea's behalf. And when you play possession football like Swansea does, you are bound to affect the opponents concentration and that sometimes lead to mistakes. Last night it did.
The return of Chelsea could mean trouble for Swansea though. They will be pushing hard to create chances in the box, maybe with Ba on top. And that will be a challenge even though Williams and Chico did a fantastic job last nite. So you should practice your corners and set pieces, I think they will be key in the next game.”
by carpmeister
Thursday, January 10 2013, 9:50AM
“Great result for the Swans last night, could only get online updates last night and one thing that struck me was the stats(if they are to be believed) Chelsea only had 33% of 24 shots on target whereas Swans only had a handful of shots with 80% on target and 2 ended up in the net. Either way a superb result, and also another big game for Tremmel who has taken his chances superbly since Vorm was originally injured. Swans are in a very good position with having 2 excellent keepers to call on. Good luck Swans in the second leg but make sure we keep it going in the league.”
by swanseaola
Thursday, January 10 2013, 9:30AM
“He scores when he wants, his name is MICHU he scores when he wants - he scores when he waaaannnnts, his name is MICHU he scores when he wants.”
by ILoveMichu
Thursday, January 10 2013, 12:51AM
“sorry for multi posts, something went wrong with the website.”
by ILoveMichu
Thursday, January 10 2013, 12:23AM
“Amazing stuff.
Hope players and managers are not in a rush to leave swansea city, you just took apart the champions of europe in their back yard and have a very real chance of not only getting to wembley, but winning there too.
Dont be fooled by designer name clubs, our club is the real deal and on a constant rise.
Stay for the ride. Michu is amazing, really glad for Danny Graham too, 4 goals in 4 games, he went through a dry patch last year of 9-10 games without a goal then they came.
Just like now.
Well done to everyone involved!”
by ILoveMichu
Thursday, January 10 2013, 12:22AM
“Amazing stuff.
Hope players and managers are not in a rush to leave swansea city, you just took apart the champions of europe in their back yard and have a very real chance of not only getting to wembley, but winning there too.
Dont be fooled by designer name clubs, our club is the real deal and on a constant rise.
Stay for the ride. Michu is amazing, really glad for Danny Graham too, 4 goals in 4 games, he went through a dry patch last year of 9-10 games without a goal then they came.
Just like now.
Well done to everyone involved!
MICHU'S GONNA GET YOU!”
by ILoveMichu
Thursday, January 10 2013, 12:22AM
“Amazing stuff.
Hope players and managers are not in a rush to leave swansea city, you just took apart the champions of europe in their back yard and have a very real chance of not only getting to wembley, but winning there too.
Dont be fooled by designer name clubs, our club is the real deal and on a constant rise.
Stay for the ride. Michu is amazing, really glad for Danny Graham too, 4 goals in 4 games, he went through a dry patch last year of 9-10 games without a goal then they came.
Just like now.
Well done to everyone involved!
MICHU'S GONNA GET YOU!”
by Bentani
Wednesday, January 09 2013, 11:57PM
“We Danes cheer for you, Swansea. You're lucky with having Michael as coach. Enjoy the moment and good luck in 4th leg.”