The Swans are beaten by a better team as Everton triumph at the Liberty Stadium<\/p>\n
Report – Telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n
The chant from\u00a0Everton<\/strong>\u2019s travelling fans \u2013 that their team is going to win the league \u2013 may have been unrealistic, but they swept\u00a0Swansea<\/strong>\u00a0aside with a swagger that suggests that they may be ready to mount a serious challenge for a place among English football\u2019s top four.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Goals from Victor Anichebe, Kevin Mirallas and the inimitable Marouane Fellaini gave them an emphatic victory and they might have scored several more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe result and performance matched each other,\u201d said David Moyes, their manager. \u201cI thought we played really well from start to finish. We should have scored more with the amount of ball we had and the chances we created and we were wasteful in the final third at times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe have not heard that song too often at Everton,\u201d he added. \u201cIf we had won in midweek as we should have done, we could have been mixing it with the big boys. That\u2019s where we want to be at the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Of course, Swansea will be quick to highlight that on top of injury and illness, they not only finished this contest with 10 men, following the 57th-minute dismissal of substitute Nathan Dyer, but are still coming to terms with the loss of players such as Scott Sinclair, Joe Allen and last season\u2019s outstanding loanee, Steven Caulker. That said, on this occasion, they would be foolish to look for excuses. Everton not only dominated possession and looked by far the more polished of the two sides, but could have won by a cricket score had it not been for some woeful finishing. Anichebe, who gave Alan Tate and Ashley Williams a torrid afternoon, missed two from close range, as did Fellaini.<\/p>\n Swansea had hardly seen the ball by the time Everton took the lead. A 21st-minute free-kick from Leighton Baines picked out Fellaini at the far post and although there was a suspicion of handball, the Belgian midfielder set up Anichebe, who scored from five yards.<\/p>\n With Swansea giving full debuts to Pablo Hern\u00e1ndez and Ki Sung-yueng, there was a disjointed look about a side who had begun the season with seven points from three games. Defeat at Aston Villa eight days ago had checked their initial progress and when Mirallas latched onto Pienaar\u2019s pass, two minutes from half-time, any chance of a win here disappeared.<\/p>\n Fellaini\u2019s header eight minutes from time left Swansea manager Michael Laudrup with plenty to ponder ahead of their trip to Stoke on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cI have to say Everton deserved the win, they were better than us,\u201d said Laudrup. On top of that we were disappointing in the first 30 minutes and we gave away far too many free-kicks. I think the first 30 minutes laid the groundwork for the defeat.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can learn from this. We were 2-0 down and had a good reaction. I thought that their goalkeeper was man of the match. He made six or seven outstanding saves.\u201d<\/p>\n As far as the Dyer dismissal was concerned, Laudrup said: \u201cThe second yellow was a little unlucky, Nathan went to kick the ball, he missed it and in the same movement kicked his opponent. However, it is a yellow card and you can\u2019t say anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Moyes was delighted with the contribution of Anichebe in the absence of Nikica Jelavic. \u201cHe did OK in midweek and did not get the credit he deserved for his goal. He does not possess a lot of self-confidence but if he gets that, he is a real handful for defenders.\u201d<\/p>\n Match details<\/strong><\/p>\n Swansea (4-5-1):\u00a0<\/strong>Vorm; Rangel, Williams, Tate (Britton 54), Davies; Hern\u00e1ndez (Dyer 45), De Guzman, Ki, Michu, Routledge; Graham. Subs: Tremmel, Monk, Moore, Tiendalli. The Swans are beaten by a better team as Everton triumph at the Liberty Stadium Report – Telegraph.co.uk The chant from\u00a0Everton\u2019s travelling fans \u2013 that their team is going to win the league \u2013 may have been unrealistic, but they swept\u00a0Swansea\u00a0aside with a swagger that suggests that they may be ready to mount a serious […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943","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=18943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBooked:\u00a0<\/strong>Williams, Ki, Dyer, Rangel, Michu.
\nSent off:\u00a0<\/strong>Dyer.
\nEverton (4-5-1):<\/strong>\u00a0Howard; Neville, Jagielka, Heitinga, Baines; Osman, Coleman, Fellaini (Oviedo 85), Pienaar (Gueye 85); Mirallas (Naismith 70); Anichebe.
\nSubs:\u00a0<\/strong>Mucha, Distin, Vellios, Duffy.
\nBooked:<\/strong>\u00a0Osman.
\nReferee:<\/strong>\u00a0A Taylor (Cheshire).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"