Swansea City 3 - West Bromwich Albion 1

Date:	Wednesday 28th November 2012
Competition:	Barclays Premier League
Swansea: 7.8	(4-5-1) Tremmel, Rangel, Chico, Williams, Davies, Britton, Ki, Dyer (Moore, 64), Hernández (de Guzman, 74), Routledge, Michu (Agustien, 86) Unused subs: Cornell, Monk, Shechter, Tiendalli
WBA: 3.3	(4-2-3-1) Myhill 4.2, Jones 3.7, McAuley 4.7, Olsson 5.3, Ridgewell 4.0, Yacob 6.1, Mulumbu 4.8, Odemwingie 3.8, Morrison 4.1, Brunt 2.9, Lukaku 4.2 Unused subs: Daniels, Popov, Rosenberg, Long, Dorrans, Tamas, Fortun Manager: Steve Clarke 2.6
Scorers:	Routledge (12, 39), Michu (9); Lukaku (45)
Referee:	Lee Mason (Lancashire) 4.6
Attendance:	20,377 Home Fans 6.3 Away Fans 6.3

Summary:

Albion's attempt to make it five Premier League wins in a row failed dismally thanks to a half-hour onslaught from Swansea at the Liberty Stadium, and instead they slipped back to fourth place. Youssouf Mulumbu returned to action with James Morrison moving forward at the expense of Zoltan Gera, while Romelu Lukaku was preferred to Shane Long up front.

Swansea opened the scoring within the first ten minutes when Miguel Michu sidefooted home from 6 yards out and Wayne Routledge doubled the lead three minutes later when Jonas Olsson's attempted clearance bounced off him and into the net. With five minutes of the first half remaining, Routledge effectively killed the game when he calmly put away a cross although Lukaku gave Albion a glimmer of hope in added time when he drilled home after the hosts failed to clear Chris Brunt's corner.

That was it for action and Albion made little more impact on the Swans in the second half than they had in the first, their packed midfield leaving space down both flanks to be attacked at will and giving them just 35% of the overall posession.

Unusually, Steve Clarke left his entire bench unused, perhaps with a view to Saturday's return to the Hawthorns to face Stoke, the side Swansea may just have replaced as Albion' bogey team.