English Premier League 2013: Swansea City FC Breezed Past Crystal Palace FC; Michu Scores Demoralising Goal; Results, Statistics, Highlights (Photos and Video)
Swansea City FC breezed past Crystal Palace FC, 2-0, in the English Premier League on Sunday.
Swansea attacker Michu scored the demoralising goal just seconds over the first minute mark.
It was a product of a beautiful attack initiated by the back-line that saw Michu, Jonjo Shelvey, and Wayne Routledge exchanging passes among themselves, which led to Michu's goal, courtesy of a Routledge assist.
The second goal was as equally impressive when Alvaro Vasquez, beating the last line, made a clean run towards goal and shot the ball directly against the Palace goalkeeper, Julian Speroni's hand, but was lucky enough to get the rebound and lay it off to a trailing Nathan Dyer, who directed the ball to the top left corner.
Palace never really threatened the Swans all throughout the game, with only one shot on target.
While being unsatisfied with the score line, Swansea manager Michael Laudrup felt relieved of the result, considering team fatigue as a factor ahead of the game.
Swansea manager Michael Laudrup: "It's been a fantastic week. Before the start I thought this would be the most difficult game because it's the third game in six days with all the travelling. The week has been excellent," Laudrup told premierleague.com.
"I'm really pleased with how the players did. It always helps when you score in the first or second minute, you have to play for 90 but we dominated from the first to the last second. The only thing is we should have scored more goals because we had the chances to score five or six."
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