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title: "Swansea City 2-1 Manchester United: Match report"
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# Swansea City 2-1 Manchester United: Match report

Ander Herrera seems an ideal place to start. Involved in sieges on both goals, including an off-the-line clearance before finding the bottom corner to conclude an easy-on-the-eye manoeuvre. Prior to this however,  Van Persie’s effort on approximately 16 minutes faced the same fate as Gomis’ attempt at an early opener. Rooney’s return to the frontline looked as though it may prove fruitful also, Di Maria’s room to roam allowed him to find the striker who was unable to convince – a little more successfully than at Preston – us his goal-drought was very much at an end. It was that familiar story of dominating in possession but not converting it into goals, after all, it’s what you do with it that counts. You could say that Fellaini’s start was below expectations also, only piping up to hand Gary Monk’s men a series of free-kicks. (He was to be yellow carded as a result just before the half time whistle I should mention).

The hosts set a fine example of this, ensuring our lads’ glory was short lived, only a minute later, Jonjo Shelvey provided Ki Sung-yueng’s left foot with the opportunity to connect with a ball destined for the back of the net. United were almost condemned once more as an invaluable Shelvey could only be prevented by the officials, putting an end to an attack formed of a through ball. Di Maria somehow held on to it this time and ground out a cross which our Netherlands International sent beyond the byline. This time experimenting with his opposite foot but was as successful as his previous shot, drifting to the left of the goal.

McNair was rightly replaced at the interval but frustration kicked in for other members of the backline, Phil Jones on his return from injury had his name taken by the referee for needlessly kicking the ball from play. A collection of corners followed but all went begging, ineffectual as the last. A slightly more baffling substitution saw Ashley Young take Luke Shaw’s place in a defence certainly with their hands full. ‘Blocked’ or ‘missed’ were the key words that defined what was to come for the visitors, the latest addition from the bench along with our number 20 (on two occasions \*groan\*) and Rojo didn’t even see their efforts get as far as the home-sides ‘keeper in succession despite the latter centre-back finding himself positioned within sniffing distance of the goal.

The pressure was only a let off for The Swans who came back even stronger, Shelvey’s deflected effort claimed by Gomis. There’s only so much time you can give the British transfer record to justify the jersey and the away faithful were relieved to see Juan Mata introduced to the fray. For all our searching, the only thing in sight was referee Neil Swarbrick’s yellow card and it really was a ‘fray.’ Nothing more proved of interest despite a lengthy four minutes of stoppage time. We can all agree that ‘a lot of chances’ simply aren’t good enough when they come to nothing more than that.