article_snippet.sent: This was a game they could not afford to lose.
article_snippet.sent: Not when they final seven games include fixtures against Southampton, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United.
article_snippet.sent: But lose they did, bringing they winless run to five and leaving they in a right mess.
article_snippet.sent: but that should not exonerate a side that is supposed to be fighting for it life and yet looked so meek for half of this match.
article_snippet.sent: They managed no shots on goal in the time it took Swansea to go 2-0 ahead through Ki Sung-Yueng and Gomis’s bicycle kick.
article_snippet.sent: And it was only in the second half that They mounted a challenge.
article_snippet.sent: For a team in that kind of mess, with those fixtures still to come, it was incomprehensible.
article_snippet.sent: That’s not to say Swansea stormed from the blocks.
article_snippet.sent: That’s not to say Swansea stormed from the blocks opener after 18 minutes was actually the first chance of the game.
article_snippet.sent: The rest of their attacks fizzled, a side with five across the middle seemingly incapable of holding possession.
article_snippet.sent: Gomis nailed the second with a goal that was hardly at home in such a subdued game.
article_snippet.sent: But it was in their desperation for a leveller that their conceded a third.