Swansea City 2-0 Queens Park Rangers

  • Published
Wayne RoutledgeImage source, Getty Images
Image caption,

Swansea have won 17 of their 22 Premier League points at home

  • Swansea move up to sixth in the table

  • QPR slip down to one from bottom

  • Rangers have now lost all seven away league matches this season

  • The Swans have only lost once at home in 2014-15

Late goals from Ki Sung-Yueng and Wayne Routledge denied Queens Park Rangers their first Premier League away point of the season.

Goalkeeper Robert Green produced a string of fine saves from Gylfi Sigurdsson, Wilfried Bony and Kyle Bartley in a dominant Swansea display.

But Ki curled an angled shot into the corner of the goal to finally beat Green.

Former Rs winger Routledge blasted home from outside the box to seal the win.

Swansea are now three points off the top four in sixth, 11 points ahead of QPR who slip to 19th.

Media caption,

Swansea 2-0 QPR: Garry Monk says win was most complete performance

It was a spirited performance by Harry Redknapp's side, who were looking to record back-to-back wins for the first time in the Premier League since March 2013, following Saturday's win over Leicester.

They had only scored twice in their previous six away league matches, but just 35 seconds in, were presented with a chance to improve their tally.

Midfielder Ki tripped QPR's Karl Henry on the edge of the Swansea box, but Niko Kranjcar failed to test Lukasz Fabianski, firing the free-kick high and wide.

Fabianski's opposite number Green has made more saves than any other goalkeeper in the Premier League so far this season, and it was not long before he was called into action as Swansea took control.

Bony, a constant threat, slid the ball in behind the Hoops' defence to send Routledge clear, but Green rushed out to block the wide-man's effort.

Moments later the former England international keeper flung across his goal to turn behind Bartley's near-post header from a Sigurdsson corner.

Swansea were wasteful in front of goal in Saturday's 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace and again spurned opportunities to put the game beyond Rangers.

Joey Barton picked up his first booking of the season for a lunge on the lively Routledge on the corner of his side's 18-yard box.

Media caption,

Swansea 2-0 QPR: Harry Redknapp says home games key to survival

Sigurdsson curled the free-kick over the wall, but Green dived to his left to keep the ball out, with goal-line technology ruling that not all of the ball had crossed the line.

The near-miss sprung Rangers into a rare attack and Fabianski had to scramble across his goal to hold onto Leroy Fur's close-range header, following Krancjar's hooked cross from the byeline.

Moments later Eduardo Vargas hit a powerful low shot just wide of the Swansea goal from just outside the area.

After the break Swansea continued to dominate possession and put Rangers under pressure.

Bony latched onto Sigurdsson's through-ball, but Richard Dunne, making his 500th career league appearance, deflected the Ivorian's shot over the crossbar and onto the roof of the net with a last-ditch challenge.

Redknapp's side offered little threat going forward, defending in numbers and getting bodies behind the ball as Swansea pressed in search of the breakthrough.

It looked as though the newly promoted strugglers may hold on for a point when Green tipped Bony's well-struck volley around the post.

But the Ivory Coast striker helped to finally break QPR's resistance, threading the ball through to Ki, whose precise shot from a tight angle arrowed in off the far post.

Routledge fired the ball into the bottom corner of the net from the edge of the area to make it 2-0, with the relentless Bony hitting the post late on.

Image source, Getty Images
Image caption,

Goal-line technology showed that Queens Park Rangers' goalkeeper Robert Green had just managed to keep out Gylfi Sigurdsson's first-half free-kick

Image source, Getty Images
Image caption,

Robert Green (R) and Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski have made the most saves in the Premier League so far this season

Image source, Getty Images
Image caption,

Ki Sung-Yueng's goal against Queens Park Rangers was the first he has scored for Swansea at the Liberty Stadium in the Premier League

Sorry, we can't display this part of the article any more.

Around the BBC

Related internet links

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.