Capitalising on mistakes
Swansea took advantage from misplaced Fulham passes in scoring their first and third goals. Fulham lost concentration on a number of occasions, coupled with Swansea’s hard work, leading to mistakes throughout the game. Graham’s hard work and closing down created two chances for Sinclair; the first being blocked and another which saw Sinclair dribble past Senderos and force Schwarzer into a close range save. Sigurdsson played a major role in the victory once again, and has done so in all three matches Swansea have played during March.
Match Stats
Fulham completed 80% of their passes (344/429) while Swansea achieved 88% pass completion (613/700). Once again Swansea scored a goal resulting from a cross, and they had 20% cross completion from 15 crosses, compared to 8% completion from 12 crosses for Fulham. Swansea actually made more passes to the left in this game, a complete turn around from the start of the season (190 to the left, 187 to the right). Although there were 98 attacking passes to the right-wing, compared to 55 to the left-wing. Another feature of Swansea’s passing fluidity is ‘lay-offs’, these can be difficult to input when analysing, but I have to say I do enjoy a good lay-off, along with the movement that follows. Swansea made 47/48 lay-offs, compared to Fulham’s trivial 1/1. With 62% possession to top it all off, Swansea outperformed Fulham in all the crucial areas.
