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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 21 (setup 1, season 25)
Rochdale
v.
Swansea City
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
13
Overall form:
Home form:
Roman WEIDENFELLER71Samir HANDANOVIC
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
ADRIANO Correia Claro627Stephan LICHTSTEINER
Álvaro ARBELOA Coca37MARCELO Vieira da Silva Junior
Lars BENDER47Luka MODRIC
DAVID LUIZ Moreira Marinho75Vincent KOMPANY
Benedikt HÖWEDES76Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, PEPE
Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI78Eden HAZARD
Toni KROOS87David Jiménez SILVA
Samuel ETO'O Fils97Sergio Leonel AGÜERO
Antonio DI NATALE10Claudio MARCHISIO
Santiago Cazorla González, SANTI CAZORLA611Radamel FALCAO García Zárate
Rikki FaulknerManagerMark Rose
Adil RAMI12MUHAMMED Demirci
Karim REKIK13RUI Pedro dos Santos PATRÍCIO
Moritz LEITNER14Karim BENZEMA
Klaas-Jan HUNTELAAR15Viktor FISCHER
DANILO Luiz da Silva16Lukasz PISZCZEK

Rochdale 3 Swansea City 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 59,102, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: MELLIN 6½)
43 Lavezzi, 51 Di Natale, 87 Di NataleScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
20 AdrianoBookings
3Corners6
12Fouls11
19Offsides7
8Shots on4
6Shots off7
14Total shots11
5Shots saved4
40%Possession60%
Man of the match: Eden HAZARD
4A pin-point pass fell to SILVA and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
9HAZARD shot wide.
14A twenty-five yard drive from LAVEZZI caused HANDANOVIC no problem.
14MARCHISIO made space on the right and pulled the ball to FALCAO who clipped the ball over.
15A lovely effort from DI NATALE scraped the outside of the righthand post.
16ETO'O's shot was well held by HANDANOVIC.
20A bad foul gets ADRIANO a yellow card.
25SILVA was put clear by KOMPANY and he raced past the 'keeper but struck his shot over the bar.
29MARCHISIO knocked the ball to AGÜERO who nodded it over.
33AGÜERO's shot beat the Rochdale 'keeper but rebounded off the Rochdale upright.
36A weak shot from ETO'O trickled agonisingly wide.
40AGÜERO galloped through the Rochdale defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
42WEIDENFELLER did well to hold onto a fierce shot from KOMPANY.
43GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with LAVEZZI rocketing the ball in off the post. (1-0 Rochdale)
44A good ball from MARCHISIO on the right fell to AGÜERO who scuffed his effort over the bar.
 
51GOAL!! A curling inswinging corner was forced in at the far post by DI NATALE. (2-0 Rochdale)
54DI NATALE dribbled away from MARCHISIO and rifled a tame shot past the post.
59A corner bobbled toward DI NATALE who nodded the ball wide.
63WEIDENFELLER dived to his right to block a lovely shot from Swansea City's SILVA.
66The 'keeper was able to palm clear a poor shot from DI NATALE.
68The stunned 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from ARBELOA dropped just wide.
81A penalty box meleé resulted in LAVEZZI cracking a low shot over.
82A cross from ADRIANO left SANTI CAZORLA in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
82LAVEZZI touched the ball through a ruck of players but the Swansea City 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
87GOAL!! A cross from the right was nodded down by LAVEZZI for DI NATALE to score. (3-0 Rochdale)
89A great strike from DI NATALE was dealt with by a useful stop from the Swansea City 'keeper.