It was a five star display from the Swans as the Michael Laudrup era opened with a comprehensive hammering of QPR at Loftus Road<\/p>\n
REPORT – Wales Online<\/p>\n
MICHAEL LAUDRUP’S reign as Swansea City manager got off to a dream start as his side hammered five past big-spending Queens Park Rangers.<\/p>\n
Two goals each from Nathan Dyer and £2m signing Miguel Michu and a late finish from substitute Scott Sinclair gave Swansea their first-ever win at Loftus Road in 20 attempts.<\/p>\n
Swansea hadn’t won on the first day of the season since 2005 but Laudrup’s new-look side produced a stunning performance on the hottest day of the year in West London.<\/p>\n
Laudrup had left want-away winger Sinclair out of his starting XI following the 23-year-old’s decision not to sign a new contract but supporters have a new hero to worship in new signing Michu.<\/p>\n
He gave Swansea the lead on eight minutes, lashing the ball past former England international Rob Green from the edge of the area.<\/p>\n
It was the first goal scored in the 2012\/13 Premier League season for a player who hit 15 for Rayo Vallecano in La Liga last season.<\/p>\n
QPR responded well and almost drew level three minutes later but Swansea goalkeeper Michel Vorm produced a brilliant save<\/span> to deny Jamie Mackie from close range.<\/p>\n New Rangers signings Junior Hoilett and Fabio de Silva went close for the home side and Vorm again saved the Swans on 30 minutes, this time from Adel Taarabt.<\/p>\n Swansea’s £2m summer capture Chico Flores hit the crossbar with a header from a Jonathan de Guzman corner five minutes before half time.<\/p>\n Then on the stroke of the half-time whistle Michu hit the bar with a left foot shot when another de Guzman corner fell to him six yards out.<\/p>\n QPR started brightly after the break but Swansea doubled their advantage<\/span> on 53 minutes.<\/p>\n Wayne Routledge showed some great pace on the counter attack before finding Michu inside the QPR box and the Spaniard placed his first-time shot into the top corner.<\/p>\n With Rangers pushing forward Swansea took advantage and grabbed a third on 63 minutes when Nathan Dyer latched on to Routledge’s through ball to calmly slot past Green.<\/p>\n Dyer then sent the away support into raptures with 20 minutes remaining, bringing down a superb ball from substitute Kemy Agustien and finishing past Green.<\/p>\n Mark Hughes’ side were all over the place at the back and Sinclair, booed by the away support when he came on, grabbed the fifth and final goal with a brilliant left foot finish past Green.<\/p>\n Swansea:<\/strong> Vorm: Rangel, Chico, Williams, Taylor; Britton, De Guzman (Agustien 70), Michu (Gower 84); Dyer (Sinclair 77), Graham, Routledge.<\/p>\n Subs not used:<\/strong> Tremmel, Tate, Richards, Gower, Agustien, Sinclair, Moore<\/p>\n QPR:<\/strong> Green; Fabio, Hill (Wright-Phillips 64), Ferdinand, Onuoha; Hoilett, Park, Diakite, Mackie; Taarabt; Cisse (Johnson 77).<\/p>\n Subs not used:<\/strong> Murphy, Derry, Johnson, Nelsen, K Dyer, Zamora.<\/p>\n Referee:<\/strong> Lee Probert (Wiltshire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a five star display from the Swans as the Michael Laudrup era opened with a comprehensive hammering of QPR at Loftus Road REPORT – Wales Online MICHAEL LAUDRUP’S reign as Swansea City manager got off to a dream start as his side hammered five past big-spending Queens Park Rangers. Two goals each from […]<\/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-18892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892","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=18892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}