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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 2 (setup 1, season 25)
Swansea City
v.
Rochdale
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
8
Overall form:
Samir HANDANOVIC61Roman WEIDENFELLER
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
2
Overall form:
Stephan LICHTSTEINER82Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez
Patrice EVRÀ3Álvaro ARBELOA Coca
Luka MODRIC47Valon BEHRAMI
Vincent KOMPANY57DAVID LUIZ Moreira Marinho
Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, PEPE76Benedikt HÖWEDES
Juan Manuel MATA García77Santiago Cazorla González, SANTI CAZORLA
David Jiménez SILVA8Toni KROOS
Karim BENZEMA9Samuel ETO'O Fils
Claudio MARCHISIO10Antonio DI NATALE
Radamel FALCAO García Zárate117Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI
Mark RoseManagerRikki Faulkner
Dennis PRAET128Klaas-Jan HUNTELAAR
RAFAEL Cabral Barbosa13Maarten STEKELENBURG
Iker MUNIAIN Goñi14Kevin VOLLAND
Nemanja VIDIC15Holger BADSTUBER
Lukasz PISZCZEK16Darijo SRNA

Swansea City 2 Rochdale 2
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 60,880, Stadium: Liberty, Referee: Lee MASON 6)
3 Silva, 38 FalcaoScorers25 Di Natale, 75 Kroos
Substitutions66 Behrami <=> Huntelaar
Sendings off
52 Marchisio, 60 Kompany, 71 Benzema, 84 ModricBookings
8Corners2
13Fouls8
5Offsides6
6Shots on4
7Shots off4
13Total shots8
4Shots saved2
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Álvaro ARBELOA Coca
3MODRIC made space on the right and pulled the ball to BENZEMA who rasped the ball over.
3GOAL!! An outswinging corner nodded out by BEHRAMI was tapped into the back of the net by SILVA. (1-0 Swansea City)
6A wonderful save prevented BENZEMA from scoring a lovely goal.
10A good ball from LAVEZZI on the right was collected by DI NATALE who sliced his effort wide.
12FALCAO raced past DAVID LUIZ but slammed the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
15MODRIC beat ARBELOA and fired the ball to PEPE who fumbled his shot wide.
15A free-kick from ETO'O flew inches wide.
20A poor strike from SILVA trickled agonisingly wide.
22BENZEMA booted the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
25GOAL!! A scuffed ETO'O shot was collected by DI NATALE who made no mistake from the edge of the box. (1-1)
27LAVEZZI dribbled round PEPE and stroked a tame shot into the crowd.
33An exceptional strike from BENZEMA was dealt with by a fine parry from the Rochdale 'keeper.
35A corner fell to DI NATALE who touched the ball just beyond the near post.
38GOAL!! A long ball from BENZEMA down the middle bobbled toward the lurking FALCAO who drilled a looping shot into the top corner. (2-1 Swansea City)
45DI NATALE charged through the Swansea City defence but shot straight at the Swansea City 'keeper.
 
49An inswinging corner was headed into the arms of WEIDENFELLER by FALCAO.
52The referee books MARCHISIO.
54A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing HANDANOVIC.
58A penalty box scramble resulted in SILVA tapping a low shot over.
60A high foul gets KOMPANY a yellow card.
62FALCAO drove a right foot shot over the bar from long range.
71The ref cautions BENZEMA for a clinical challenge.
75GOAL!! Some fine work by DI NATALE on the right, left KROOS yards clear, and he dummied the 'keeper and blasted the ball into the back of the net. (2-2)
84MODRIC booked for a clinical tackle on LAVEZZI.
86SILVA scuffed an easy chance.