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Match report
English Footie
Champions League: Round 1 (setup 1, season 26)
Swansea City
v.
FC Twente
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
11
Overall form:
Home form:
Samir HANDANOVIC17Nick MARSMAN
Formation:
4-3-3
Stephan LICHTSTEINER72Babajide OGUNBIYI
MARCELO Vieira da Silva Junior3Bart BUYSSE
Luka MODRIC846Simon CZIOMMER
Vincent KOMPANY5Rasmus BENGTSSON
Nemanja VIDIC6Nils RÖSELER
OSCAR dos Santos Emboaba Júnior7Ellery CAĎRO
David Jiménez SILVA88Steven BERGHUIS
Karim BENZEMA89Vaqif CAVADOV
Eden HAZARD710Jurgen CAVENS
Robin VAN PERSIE6116Yannick dos Santos DJALÓ
Mark RoseManager
Dennis PRAET12Nikita RUKAVYTSYA
RUI Pedro dos Santos PATRÍCIO13Pär HANSSON
Andrej MODIC14Zoltán HARSÁNYI
Adrien RABIOT15Ninos GOURIYE
Zakaria BAKKALI16Kevin BOBSON

Swansea City 2 FC Twente 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 68,233, Stadium: Liberty, Referee: Graham LAWS 6, TV: highlights)
2 Benzema, 49 BenzemaScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
90+4 OscarBookings
7Corners9
7Fouls18
7Offsides4
6Shots on2
13Shots off4
19Total shots6
4Shots saved2
56%Possession44%
Man of the match: Vincent KOMPANY
2GOAL!! After some fine play on the right BENZEMA came inside and whacked the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Swansea City)
6A shot from BENZEMA was smothered by the FC Twente 'keeper.
8BENZEMA shot over.
11HAZARD made space on the right and knocked the ball to SILVA who rasped the ball over.
12A pin-point pass found CAVADOV and his left foot shot flew narrowly over.
13CAVENS beat VIDIC and whacked the ball to BERGHUIS who toe-poked his shot wide.
15VAN PERSIE rifled an easy chance past the near post.
15A shot from BENZEMA held no problem for MARSMAN.
20SILVA ran onto a great ball from MODRIC but fired his shot wide.
24Uncertainty in the FC Twente defence enabled BENZEMA to blast the ball over.
27A weak strike from VAN PERSIE trickled agonisingly wide.
32SILVA nodded the ball wide of the lefthand post from just inside the area.
35BENZEMA blasted a right foot shot over the bar from twenty-five yards out.
40A cross from OSCAR left BENZEMA in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
42A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the oncoming MARSMAN.
 
49GOAL!! A long goal-kick from LICHTSTEINER caught the FC Twente defence square and BENZEMA nipped in to round the 'keeper and score. (2-0 Swansea City)
52BENZEMA headed over.
57A clever cross from CAVADOV, was tapped goalbound by BERGHUIS only for the Swansea City 'keeper to block.
61VAN PERSIE scuffed an easy chance.
63A header by DJALÓ at the near post was easily collected by the Swansea City 'keeper.
67MODRIC beat four FC Twente players and drove a shot over the bar.
68VAN PERSIE dribbled round BERGHUIS and flicked a weak shot well wide.
82The stunned 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from SILVA fell just wide.
85MARSMAN saved a curling shot from BENZEMA.
90+1A penalty box meleé resulted in CAVADOV cracking a low shot over.
90+4A bad challenge on CAVADOV by OSCAR results in a booking.