Swansea City fall to defeat at Aston Villa
SWANSEA City fell to their first defeat of the Premier League season as they lost 2-0 away at Aston Villa.
The hosts’ goals came courtesy of a first-half volley from Matthew Lowton and a late strike from debutant Christian Benteke.
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The Swans are still second in the Premier League table, though they were left to rue a host of missed chances early in the game.
Ashley Williams had a firm header saved by Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan after ten minutes and, seconds later, the American tipped over a fine curling effort from Nathan Dyer.
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The effervescent visitors dominated the early exchanges, but they went behind against the run of play after 16 minutes.
Williams could only clear Barry Bannan’s corner into the path of Lowton, who chested the ball and hit a swerving, 20-yard volley which flew past a wrong-footed Michel Vorm.
Swansea threatened again as the first half progressed – Michu and Dyer combined beautifully in midfield – but they trailed 1-0 at the interval.
Michael Laudrup’s men struggled to play with the same cohesion in the second period, though they came close to a penalty with 20 minutes left.
Dyer latched on to a loose ball in the box and fell to the ground following a challenge from Lowton, but referee Lee Mason waved play on.
By this point, Villa were increasingly comfortable and began to exert their own pressure.
As the game wore on they introduced transfer deadline day signing Benteke, and he had an immediate impact.
Williams misjudged a header back to Vorm, and the Belgian striker intervened to round the stranded goalkeeper and tap into an empty net for a simple debut goal.
Swansea substitute Luke Moore threatened late on, but Guzan had little to do as the home side held on for their first win of the season.
Comments
by Hadoken6773
Monday, September 17 2012, 8:34PM
“By looks at how Everton are playing at newcastle at the moment we better our act together or its gonna be murder. They are looking seriously sharp.”
by morton1947
Monday, September 17 2012, 1:50PM
“Let's simply put it behind us and move on. We have started the season brilliantly and as the other Posters have mentioned we can expect a set back or two but we do look as though we have goals in us this year. Hernandez is going to be awesome I am sure and totally agree that Ben Davies is a lad who is doing a mans job and doing it superbly well for one so young so this bodes well for the future. Add to the problems that we had with Chico being Red Carded and with the injuries to Taylor and Bartley and I think we showed up well at Villa. I also feel that the World Cup involvement for some of our players also didn't help our cause.Tricky game ahead though this weekend with Everton so we have to be up for it but so far so good.”
by swanseaola
Sunday, September 16 2012, 7:53PM
“Reflected on yesterdays defeat at Villa Park.
The positives are that we did create chances particulary in the first half, Nathan Dyer shot was saved excellently by their keeper.Danny Graham missed a difficult cross again in the first period.
Pablo Hernadez is a player we are going to cherish at the Liberty.Ben Davis had an excellent match for a player so young (our man of the match).
But two mistakes made the match an uphill struggle for the Swans, nothing to be deflated about roll on Everton.
Come on the SWANS!”
by abertawejack
Sunday, September 16 2012, 3:01PM
“Bit unlucky not to have grabbed a point but fair play, these type of games are going to get away from us yet chances we had a plenty. We need to close down our defence which is a must. If we can keep up our momentum at home games we have a strong chance of staying up which is, what we only need to do for this year. We've had a bit of a set back with injuries/red cards as our playing shows at times, but it's not the end far from it, plenty of pluses........... "C'mon u SSSWWWAAANNNSSS".”