http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Everton-c39043 beat Swansea City 2-0 at the Liberty Stadium in a Premier League match on Saturday.
Goals from Everton in the 59th and 76th minute consigned the Swans to just their third home defeat of the season. Their other two losses at the Liberty Stadium came against Manchester United and Norwich City.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nikica-Jelavic-c27906 sealed the affair for the Toffees via a tap in from close range. This allowed the Merseyside club to leapfrog the Swans in the league table.
Swansea started the match brightly, keeping hold of a majority of the possession in the early minutes of the game. In the seventh minute, Gylfi Sigurdsson picked up http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Danny-c10193 Graham on the right but his effort was comfortably kept at bay, by the Everton goal
keeper, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Tim-Howard-c35095.
Minutes later, Sigurdsson took a shot from outside the box but his attempt was well off target.
In the 27th minute, Everton had the opportunity to take the lead when a header from Jelavic missed the goal.
Swansea then pressed forward for the opener, with Sigurdsson picking a wonderful ball from Wayne Routledge but his shot was blocked by Jelavic.
Everton then, came close to scoring in the opening moments of the second half, when Jelavic picked a ball from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Leon-Osman-c22041, but his shot went over the post. Minutes later, Sigurdsson took a pop at the goal from 25 yards, but his shot was blocked by Sylvain
Distin.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michel-Vorm-c25482 then came to the Swans rescue as he made a fine save from Darren Gibson’s left footed shot from 25 meters.
Just around the hour mark, the Toffees went ahead from a free kick right at the edge of the box, following a trip on Baines by Ashley Williams. The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 International produced a moment of brilliance, as he curled the ball in the right corner of the net
to break the deadlock.
The goal forced the Swans boss to make a triple substitution as they looked to break the Toffees stronghold. However, the home side were caught on the counter by Everton and Jelavic had the opportunity to score Everton’s second goal but his poor shot from
six yards was well off target.
Soon after, the striker redeemed himself after scoring in the 76th minute after a cross from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marouane-Fellaini-c24295 picked up the Croatian player for an easy tap in who ensured three points for the visiting team by putting the ball in the net.
The victory helped Everton overtake Swansea in the league to the eight spot.
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