Danny Graham scores a hat trick and Michu grabs the other as Blackpool are beaten 4-2 at the Liberty<\/p>\n
REPORT – EVENING POST<\/p>\n
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DANNY Graham’s hat-trick helped Swansea City to a 4-2 win over Blackpool in Michael Laudrup’s first game in charge at the Liberty Stadium last night.<\/span><\/p>\n The Dane included new signings Chico Flores, Michu and Jonathan de Guzman in his starting line-up, and his side had little difficulty in swatting their Championship opponents<\/span> aside.<\/span><\/p>\n Laudrup could hardly have wished for a better start, as Graham latched on to a mishit backpass from Barry Ferguson and rounded the stranded goalkeeper Matt Gilks before slotting into an empty net.<\/span><\/p>\n Swansea’s record signing had a hand in the second goal too as he released new arrival Michu, who took a touch and found the bottom corner with a measured, low finish.<\/span><\/p>\n The home side dominated possession, but Blackpool halved the deficit after 23 minutes as Ludovic Sylvestre took advantage<\/span> of a sloppy Ben Davies clearance to volley past Michel Vorm.<\/span><\/p>\n Michu could have restored the two-goal advantage but his sliding effort<\/span> was straight at Gilks, while Wayne Routledge shot over after a neat pass from Davies.<\/span><\/p>\n It mattered little as Graham scored his second shortly before half time, turning and shooting past Gilks following a cool assist from Nathan Dyer inside the box.<\/span><\/p>\n The second half was played at a more leisurely pace, but Dyer injected some urgency into proceedings when he sped past two Blackpool players<\/span>, raced into the box and shot low and hard. His effort was palmed away by Gilks, but only into the path of Graham, who completed his hat-trick from close range to give Swansea a 4-1 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n Blackpool claimed a late consolation goal as Thomas Ince was brought down in the box by Ashley Williams and converted the penalty himself. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Swansea: Vorm (Tremmel 61), Rangel (Richards 61), Williams ©, Chico (Tate 80), Davies (Bessone 86), Britton (Agustien 75), de Guzman, Michu, Dyer (Lita 80), Routledge (Edwards 86), Graham (Moore 68).<\/span><\/p>\n Blackpool: Gilks, Eardley (Caton 77), Evatt (Eastham 77), Baptiste, Crainey, Ferguson (Martinez ht), Basham (Ince 40), Sylvestre (Gomes ht), Grandin (Robertson ht), Phillips (Barkhuizen 63), Taylor-Fletcher (Bruna 68). Subs not used: Halstead, Capril, Menagh, Cathcart, Dodd.<\/span><\/p>\n Attendance: 8,631<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Danny Graham scores a hat trick and Michu grabs the other as Blackpool are beaten 4-2 at the Liberty REPORT – EVENING POST DANNY Graham’s hat-trick helped Swansea City to a 4-2 win over Blackpool in Michael Laudrup’s first game in charge at the Liberty Stadium last night. The Dane included new signings Chico […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}