Capital One Cup Match Report: Swansea Book Place In Fourth Round

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Goals from Nathan Dyer, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Marvin Emnes handed Swansea a 3-0 win over Everton to book a place in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup.

Everton bossed the early stage of the match and looked very dangerous upfront, with Samuel Eto’o and Christian Atsu combining very well.

With Everton struggling to get a goal, Swansea were able to regroup and gained control of the match.

Gary Monk’s side moved the ball with more urgency and had Everton on the back foot, but Roberto Martinez’s team remained solid in defence.

But it was not for long as a neat build-up from Swansea in the 28th minute saw them break the deadlock.

Nathan Dyer scored from a well delivered Jefferson Montero’s ball, with a nice finish into the far post for the opener.

Montero was causing all sorts of problems for Everton as Swansea looked for the second goal.

The match went to the break with Swansea finishing the stronger side, having gone ahead in the 28th minute.

Martinez made changes very early in the second half with Romelu Lukaku replacing veteran striker, Eto’o.

The change looked to be working for them as they threatened down the flanks, where McGeady was operating efficiently.

Early in the second half Tim Howard pulled off a great save, pushing away a Gylfi Sigurdsson’s header from a well delivered Moreno’ ball.

Swansea though then grabbed the second goal in the 64th minute through Sigurdsson.

This was after Everton defender, Distin headed the ball against his own crossbar as he tried to cut out a Shelvey’s deep cross, but the Iceland international pounced on the rebound to put his team 2-0 ahead.

Marvin Emnes added the third goal in the 87th minutes as Swansea progressed to the fourth round with a comfortable win.

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