Following Arsenal's 2-1 defeat to Swansea City on Wednesday, which was their third defeat in a row, the Gunners are now six points behind league leaders Leicester City. Although the teams surrounding Arsenal in the table, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, both lost as well, there are some serious issues with the Gunners at the moment.
Following Arsenal's 2-1 defeat to Swansea City on Wednesday, which was their third defeat in a row, the Gunners are now six points behind league leaders Leicester City. Although the teams surrounding Arsenal in the table, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, both lost as well, there are some serious issues with the Gunners at the moment.
Swansea manager Garry Monk hailed his side's "most complete performance of the season" as they moved into the top six of the Barclays Premier League with a 2-0 home victory over QPR.
Monk's men dominated throughout but had to rely on goals from Ki Sung-yueng and Wayne Routledge in the final 12 minutes to finally break Rangers' spirited resistance.
Swansea manager Garry Monk hailed his side's "most complete performance of the season" as they moved into the top six of the Barclays Premier League with a 2-0 home victory over QPR.
Monk's men dominated throughout but had to rely on goals from Ki Sung-yueng and Wayne Routledge in the final 12 minutes to finally break Rangers' spirited resistance.
Swansea manager Garry Monk hailed his side's "most complete performance of the season" as they moved into the top six of the Barclays Premier League with a 2-0 home victory over QPR.
Monk's men dominated throughout but had to rely on goals from Ki Sung-yueng and Wayne Routledge in the final 12 minutes to finally break Rangers' spirited resistance.
For the second time in a week, Manchester United lost at home, this time 2-1 to Swansea City, a result that knocked United out of the FA Cup.
Swansea went ahead in the 12th minute when the United back line parted and let Wayne Routledge, run onto a pass from Alejandro Pozuelo to lob Anders Lindegaard.
Michu of Swansea City-Photo by Ben Hoskins/Getty Images
On Saturday, Swansea City will host Stoke City at Liberty Stadium. Swansea find themselves in ninth place with 30 points (7-6-9), while the visitors are right behind them in tenth place with 29 points (6-5-11). Last weekend, the Welsh side drew 0-0 away to Everton at Goodison Park, with the Potters having worse fortunes andlosing 4-0 at home to Chelsea.
Nemanja Vidic of Manchester United (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Goalkeeper controversies have been one of the themes of the Premier League season so far.
Andre Villas-Boas having to decide between Hugo Lloris or Brad Friedel at Tottenham Hotspur, Sir Alex Ferguson alternating David de Gea and Anders Lindegaard at Manchester United.
In what is actually quite uncharacteristic for our review of the week's best players, defenders actually dominated the upper echelon of Premier League players in Week 7 and account for a majority of this edition's selections.
As always, we take all fixtures into the matter and pick out several of the top performers that were vital in their side clinching the weekend's vital result.
Match just over at Liberty Stadium English Premier League Home Team Swansea Goals & Scorers 66′:
Michu;45′: Wayne Routledge; Keeper Michel Vorm Midfield Wayne Routledge; Michu; Nathan Dyer; Leon
Britton; Jonathan De Guzman; Forwards Daniel Graham; Defense Chico; Neil Taylor; Angel Rangel;
Ashley Williams; Subs 78′: [.
Playing at Liberty Stadium English Premier League Home Team Swansea Keeper Michel Vorm Midfield
Leon Britton; Jonathan De Guzman; Wayne Routledge; Michu; Nathan Dyer; Forwards Daniel Graham;
Defense Angel Rangel; Ashley Williams; Chico; Neil Taylor; Subs Away Team Sunderland Keeper Simon
Mignolet Midfield [.
Swansea City 3-0 West Ham United Premier League 25 August 2012
A clash of two rather different styles of play here, with Michael Laudrup's smooth and sexy
Swans starting well against Sam Allardyce's more prosaic Hammers.
The Premier League kicked off its 2012-13 season with both Swansea and Fulham winning big, while
it was a disappointing first game in charge for Brendan Rodgers of Liverpool.
Swansea City midfielder Michu scored a goal in each half on his Premier League debut as the
Swans thumped Queens Park Rangers 5-0 at Loftus Road.
Kenny Palmer gives THFC1882 his match report on Tottenham Hotspur's great display
yesterday.
A headed brace by Emmanuel Adebayor and an excellent side footed opener by Rafael Van Der Vaart
helped Spurs back to winning ways with a victory against Brendan Rodgers impressive Swansea.
Tottenham Hotspur ended a five-match winless streak in the Premier League by beating Swansea
City 3-1 at White Hart Lane, and as a result moved level on points with third-placed Arsenal.
Spurs took the lead on 19 minutes as Rafael van der Vaart converted a stylish, sidefooted effort
from just outside the area after a sliding Ashley Williams had cut out Gareth Bale's near-post
cross.
Tottenham Hotspur ended a five-match winless streak in the Premier League by beating Swansea
City 3-1 at White Hart Lane, and as a result moved level on points with third-placed Arsenal.
Spurs took the lead on 19 minutes as Rafael van der Vaart converted a stylish, sidefooted effort
from just outside the area after a sliding Ashley Williams had cut out Gareth Bale's near-post
cross.
Fulham 0-3 Swansea City Premier League 17th March 2012
Brendan Rodgers' Swansea side look to have finally cracked their travel-sickness problem which
had affected the Premier League new boys for most of the season.
TweetA blubbering Manchester City fan was captured on TV crying after seeing his side concede a
late goal as City crashed to a 1-0 defeat to Swansea at the Liberty Stadium Luke Moore was the hero
for hosts Swansea City as he headed home Wayne Routledge's pinpoint cross in the 83rd minute to
send City [.
Brendan Rodgers claims Swansea City are a better team after ten games in the Premier
League
The Swans boss says his side are better equipped than they were at the start of the season, and
praised the performances of Wayne Routledge and Michel Vorm against Liverpool
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Swansea deservedly gained only their second away point in the Premier League with a performance
that had the Anfield crowd cheering them off at the final whistle. The Welsh team were indebted to
Michel Vorm, Holland's No 2 goalkeeper, for two outstanding saves at the death, but the quality of
their football merited a point.
Frank Lampard's hat trick helped Chelsea rout Bolton on Sunday while Fulham thrashed QPR 6-0 in
their London derby and Swansea beat Stoke 2-0 in Sunday's other games.
Chelsea is third in the standings after Lampard led the Blues to a 5-1 victory at bottom-place
Bolton.
Daniel Sturridge set the tone for Chelsea's emphatic win at Bolton by heading in a second-minute
opener before setting up Lampard to score his first.
So here it is, the start of the new season. And unlike the rest of you, I can say that since I
really haven't watched a game yet which is an unexpected nice feeling. Yes, we all know the season
really three weeks in and we have only garnered one point and basically made a bile of manure out
of the summer and anything else you can think of, but we need to get on with it.
Swansea wingerWayne Routledge has saluted his club's performance after the Swansbeat Romanian side Petrolul Ploiesti 5-1 in the Europa League on Thursday. The 28-year-old winger scored twice for the club during their dominant performance, and believes that it was a great response to the club's 4-1 loss to Manchester United last Saturday.
Swansea pretty much secured their place in the group stage of the Europa League with a 5-1 win against Romania's Petrolul Ploiesti in last night's playoff first-leg. Wayne Routledge gave the Swans the lead a comfortable first-half lead with two goals either side of Michu's effort. Goalkeeper Peterson Pecanha turned the ball into his own [.
In our penultimate fan preview, Chris Carra from Forza Swansea discusses all things Swansea. Follow @ForzaSwansea on Twitter.
Scott: How did you rate 2012-2013 for your club?
Chris: Last season couldn't have gone better! It's been hailed the best season in the club's history and rightly so, with the club recording their highest ever league finish and winning the league cup.
I remember someone once saying to me 'you have to experience the lows in order to appreciate the highs.' I don't think that person was drunk at the time of saying those words, so I have tried to apply them to Arsenal's current predicament. We went unbeaten for a whole season, demolished most sides in our path and played some stonkingly good football at the same time.
Swansea 2-2 Reading Premier League 6th October 2012
Two late Swansea goals rescued a point for the home side at the Liberty Stadium, a point which finally halted Michael Laudrup's losing streak as well as preventing Reading from enjoying their first win of the campaign.
szólj hozzá: Swansea vs West Ham 3:0 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS
What a shambolic display by West Ham! Jussi Jaaskelainen in goal just makes an unhloly mess as
he reacts too late to Angel Rangel's shot allowing it to deflect off his hands straight to goal.
Then more disaster as Michu steals James Collins's disaster of a chipped back pass and the rush is
on but the Spanish midfielder beats Jaaskelainen for his third Premiership goal.
1. Wingers in Wales-Â As Wayne Routledge wheeled away in celebration after scoring Swansea's second
goal, Brendan Rodgers probably popped an Aspirin. For newly promoted sides selection dilemmas are
few and far between, making each individual one all...
Speaking in recent interview on Swansea City's Europa League campaign next season, Chairman Huw Jenkins knocked Europa League knockers such as Alan Pardew, who has frequently used midweek European competition as an excuse for his poor League form this season (amongst other things), with Jenkins dismissing such talk as "rubbish.
Venue: St James' Park, Newcastle. Date: Sunday, 17th November. Kick off: 3:00pm Referee: Phil Dowd‎. UK TV: None. St James' Park will be honoured to receive football royalty to St James' Park as the greatest footballer of the 1990s, and indeed one of the greatest ever, Michael Laudrup, brings his Swansea City side to St [.
Swansea City v Newcastle United full match video, highlights and post match interviews. Teams,
stats etc Swansea City (4-3-3): Michel Vorm; Angel Rangel, Ashley Williams (C), Steven Caulker,
Neil Taylor, Leon Britton, Joe Allen, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Nathan Dyer (Scott Sinclair 66), Luke Moore
(Danny Graham 65), Wayne Routledge.
It's apparent that the standards at Newcastle have been raised fairly substantially since AlanÂ
Pardew arrived at Newcastle almost a year ago. James Perch congratulates Colo on late winner at
Nottingham Forest After Pardew assessed the squad in his first few weeks on Tyneside, and he seemed
sure that Wayne Routledge, as one example, would not make the grade at Newcastle [.
When Andy Carroll left Newcastle United back in January the fans were told that all of the £35
million would be invested in players. Here are the players we've signed since then:
Yohann Cabaye (around £5 mil)
Demba Ba (Free transfer)
Silvain Marveaux (Free transfer)
Mehdi Abeid (Free transfer)
Davide Santon (Undisclosed thought to be about £5 million)
Gabriel Obertan (£3 million)
Rob Elliot (Thought to be around £250k)
In that same time period, we have let go or sold the following players:
With the new season just a few short hours from kick off, Toon fans everywhere take stock of the
events of the past few months and are no doubt wondering what kind of start we'll have given the
merciless squad upheaval. Since the transfer window opened Geordies have sat around with baited
breath hoping for [.
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Swansea vs QPR
Swans: Michel Vorm, Angel Rangel, Steven Caulker, Ashley Williams (capt), Jazz Richards, Kemy
Agustien, Leon Britton, Joe Allen, Wayne Routledge, Scott Sinclair, Danny Graham.
The game went ahead amidst many calls for its postponement following the tragic news of Gary
Speed's death. The result doesn't seem that important in the scheme of things right now, but it's
probably a point that will prove invaluable at the end of the season.
Following a heart warming and entirely spontaneous round of applause in place of the planned minute
of silence, the first half didn't provide any shocks.
This game will go ahead despite the tragic news that Wales manager, Gary Speed, has apparently
taken his own life. Naturally, with the game being in Wales and a number of internationals
involved, the game will inevitably be effected in some way. Such sad news.
Alex McLeish has promised a better performance than we were treated to at White Hart Lane and,
in all honesty, it would be difficult to be much worse.
Striker Andy Carroll was the fall-guy for Liverpool after missing a first-half sitter in the
goalless draw at home to Swansea.
For the second successive home match against a newly-promoted team Kenny Dalglish's side failed to
convert their chances.
Carroll's was the miss everyone will remember, although there were enough opportunities created
afterwards to have prevented a third home draw in a row.
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- QPR Stalwart, Ian Watson (1965-1974) Turns Sixty-Eight. (At QPR before Rodney Marsh Still at QPR,
after Rodney!)
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