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Match report
English Footie
League Cup: Round 4 (setup 1, season 31)
Swansea City
v.
Rochdale
Formation:
4-1-3-2
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
RUI Pedro dos Santos PATRÍCIO1Nestor 'Fernando' MUSLERA Fernando
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
Elseid HYSAJ726JOĂO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA
MARCELO Vieira da Silva Junior3Gervais Yao Kouassi, GERVINHO
Claudio MARCHISIO4Wesley SNEIJDER
Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, PEPE5DAVID COSTAS Cordal
Mateo Pablo MUSACCHIO766Jan KIRCHHOFF
Luka MODRIC87Rafael VAN DER VAART
Eden HAZARD88Darko LAZOVIC
David Jiménez SILVA89Danny GUTHRIE
Anthony MARTIAL7106Clément GRENIER
Karim BENZEMA711Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, ALEXANDRE PATO
Mark RoseManager
ENES Ünal12Moritz LEITNER
SERGIO Rico González13Josh LILLIS
GONÇALO Manuel Ganchinho GUEDES14Vurnon ANITA
Andrea PINAMONTI15Dennis AOGO
Davide ZAPPACOSTA16Jérémy TOULALAN

Swansea City 2 Rochdale 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 71,082, Stadium: Liberty, Referee: Graham HORWOOD 5½)
65 Modric, 76 BenzemaScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings17 Kirchhoff
0Corners8
10Fouls22
4Offsides6
9Shots on2
10Shots off5
19Total shots7
7Shots saved2
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, PEPE
3MARTIAL was put clear by MARCHISIO and he turned MUSLERA but drilled his shot just wide.
5A cross from SILVA left MARTIAL in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
6A penalty box scramble resulted in MARTIAL cracking the ball wide.
8SNEIJDER stabbed an easy chance past the far post.
14A free-kick from LAZOVIC raced just beyond the near post.
16The motionless MUSLERA stared in disbelief as a backpass from KIRCHHOFF fell just wide.
17KIRCHHOFF receives a yellow card for a bad challenge.
25MUSLERA saved a swerving shot from SILVA.
37MARTIAL nodded the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area.
43MUSLERA did well to hold onto a fierce shot from MODRIC.
 
46A mix up in the Swansea City defence enabled GUTHRIE to volley the ball over.
50MARTIAL stormed through the Rochdale defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
58SILVA scuffed a simple chance.
59HAZARD fired the ball through a crowd of players but MUSLERA was a match for it as he dived to his right.
62A clever pass from MARTIAL, was hit goalbound by BENZEMA only for the Rochdale 'keeper to block.
65GOAL!! Unlucky SILVA hit the crossbar before MODRIC rattled the ball into the back of the net as GRENIER failed to clear. (1-0 Swansea City)
74A corner bobbled toward BENZEMA who fired the ball over.
76GOAL!! A deep corner left the 'keeper struggling and BENZEMA banged the ball over the line. (2-0 Swansea City)
78GUTHRIE shot wide.
85A weak shot from GUTHRIE bounced agonisingly wide.
90+1SILVA beat three Rochdale players and slammed a great chance inches over.
90+1The 'keeper dived to his right to stop a fierce drive from Rochdale's GUTHRIE.