Swansea vs Everton: Blues cruise to Swans win
Everton's fine start to the season continued as they eased to a comfortable 3-0 victory over Swansea at the Liberty Stadium.
The Toffees dominated from the off and Victor Anichebe fired home from close range after 21 minutes before Kevin Mirallas finished off a superb flowing move just before half-time.
Swansea went close through Angel Rangel and Ki Sung-yueng but their hopes of a comeback were dashed early in the second half when substitute Nathan Dyer was sent off, before Everton's Marouane Fellaini administered the final blow.
Such was Everton's dominance during the first half, it was a surprise it took them so long to open the scoring.
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Swansea's sloppiness on the ball and shoddy defending meant goalkeeper Michel Vorm was forced to make three saves inside the first three minutes.
The Dutchman firstly grasped an Anichebe header at the second attempt after the striker had got on the end of Leighton Baines' whipped delivery, before twice denying Mirallas.
The warning was not heeded by the hosts and Ashley Williams endured a few nervous moments when he brought down Anichebe after Wayne Routledge's awful pass had put him in trouble.
The visitors felt the Wales centre-half had been the last man but the covering Alan Tate saved him as he saw yellow as opposed to red.
The opener arrived in the 21st minute. Williams' poor recent run continued as he misjudged a high ball to allow Fellaini to control and tee up Anichebe to fire home from close range, although replays suggested the Belgian had used an arm.
Swansea were guilty of standing off in defence and Anichebe almost punished the struggling Tate when he was given acres of space to turn but fired over.
Home manager Michael Laudrup had been the epitome of frustration during the opening half-hour, but Swansea finally managed to find a spark.
Record signing Pablo Hernandez burst away down the right and his chip was headed off the line by Phil Jagielka after linking with Michu. Phil Neville then blocked Danny Graham's strike after Routledge seized the loose ball.
Ki went closer still for the Swans, clipping an effort inches wide from 25 yards with Tim Howard beaten.
But Everton re-asserted their authority with a wonderful goal.
Neville beat Michu to a long ball near his own right corner and the former England player's coolness helped start a move that saw Fellaini and Steven Pienaar combine superbly to tee up Mirallas.
Vorm did brilliantly to palm the initial strike onto the crossbar, but the Belgian was back on his feet quickly to convert the rebound for his first Premier League goal.
Swansea should have trailed by just one goal at the break but Rangel wasted two gilt-edged chances. Howard saved the Spaniard's low shot from Ki's lovely pass, before Rangel inexplicably volleyed away from goal from Routledge's cross.
Laudrup withdrew Hernandez and put on Dyer at the break and the home side increased the pressure as Ki was frustrated by a superb Howard save and the American also denied Michu, while Mirallas struck the bar at the other end.
But Swansea's hopes of a comeback were dealt a terminal blow when Dyer saw red just 12 minutes into the second half. The winger had already been booked for dissent when a clumsy tackle on Baines earned him a second yellow.
Dyer's dismissal sapped the life from what had been an entertaining contest, although Fellaini should have scored only to sky over from Anichebe's ball across the six-yard box.
But the midfielder wrapped the scoring up with eight minutes remaining as he headed home from Baines' cross with the aid of a deflection off Williams.
Swansea's day was summed up when Jonathan de Guzman's superb free-kick was kept out by the post in stoppage time.
Comments
by Hadoken4543
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 9:39PM
“Haha, Everton just lost 2\1 to leeds.
Monk just made it 3\1 in injury time to make it 3\2!”
by confused67
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 5:05PM
“What we desperately need is a video ref, there are far to many disputed decisions.”
by hacker_jack
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 3:46PM
“I am very disappointed in Moyes calling for AW to be sent off. It seems that is the norm these days with players and managers calling for players to be sent off.
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To be fair to Moyes he was only stating the truth that if the ref deemed it was a foul then it should probably have been a red card. It was one of those situations where it should be either a foul+red or nothing and the classic reaction of a poor ref to give something in the middle.”
by confused67
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 3:42PM
“Everton were always going to be difficult to beat, their team are very seasoned pro's. I know we were very poor ,but we did get behind them on numerous occasions. If Dyer and Britton were unfit , then fair enough but, we don't leave two of our best players out of side otherwise. AW did not take Anichebe down, AW got his foot against the ball and Anichebe then took his chance and fell forward over AW, it was not a foul. If anybody has doubts check the video replay. I think the ref over reacted on several occasions. I am very disappointed in Moyes calling for AW to be sent off. It seems that is the norm these days with players and managers calling for players to be sent off. There are far to many overpaid managers and players who are willing to turn football into amateur dramatics. I know ref's are clamping down, but he was over reacting for most of the game.”
by hacker_jack
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 2:33PM
“To the numpty complaining about Britton not starting, the guy had been in bed all week with Flu, certainly not fit enough for 90 mins.
Tate isn't PL quality, neither is Monk, we know this but they are both decent enough backup for the moment. The problem wasn't just us missing a CB, but also a LB and DM in Taylor and Britton. Leon will be back next week, as will Chico, Hernandez will come good given some time to bed in and we won't be as poor as we were against Everton for the rest of the season.
No need to panic.”
by bennyhill4
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 10:19AM
“Hadoken543, Can you clarify what you mean by "other results went our way". You already sound as if you expect us to be in a relegation battle.And after a show like that why do you think that a photo of rodgers would cheer us up? You need to grow up and move on from the fact that he has left and spend you'r energy getting behind the team and stop living in the past”
by siddysod
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 9:42AM
“swans you are going down”
by siddysod
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 9:40AM
“swans you are going down down down”
by jc205
Monday, September 24 2012, 7:32PM
“siddysod, dont think you are a Swans supporter,..first post?....****. Swans will not go down...we have new players settling in, new manager..check on the other teams in that situation.....as for knockng the fans.....we are reknown as being among the best in the Premiership....I ddnt see any pouring out before the end..but I was watching the football not the crowd, and certainly no one in my area of the West stand left early...we were clapping our team off the pitch after the game.”
by bigphil1959
Monday, September 24 2012, 5:24PM
“Look out the moaners are back.”