Swansea City and Bolton Wanderers shared the honours via a 1-1 draw at the Reebok Stadium, in a Premier League match on Saturday.
A point for the Trotters was not good enough to lift them out of the relegation zone. However, Owen Coyle’s side have got 2 games in hand over their relegation rivals. They are currently sitting in the nineteenth spot in the league table, after Blackburn
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rovers-c40385 edged past Norwich City 2-0 to move to the eighteenth place.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chris-c9006 Eagles, who ensured that the Trotters did not leave empty handed from the game.
“We gave ourselves a lot to do with the slow start to the game. [It was] a wonderful finish from [Scott] Sinclair. But, I’ve stressed all week that every time he gets the ball in those areas on his right foot, so that’s my frustration.” Coyle said, in the
post-match conference.
“But again, the lads bounce back, score a wonderful goal. So, an element of frustration, but having said that, it could turn out to be a very valuable point.”
The Swans got off to the best possible start and scored the opening goal in the sixth minute, courtesy a moment of brilliance from Sinclair. The English footballer picked up the ball on the left flank, cut past Gretar Steinsson towards the edge of the box
and fired a perfect curling shot into the top right corner of the goal.
However, the home side settled their nerves only eight minutes later, by grabbing the equalizer. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Martin-Petrov-c24428 charged inside the box after making a superb run from the left, and his searching low cross from the by-line found Eagles, who fired the ball home
from close range.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michel-Vorm-c25482 into making a good low save to his right, to deny Bolton from taking the lead.
Minutes later, Swansea were awarded a free-kick of their own. A ferocious Gylfi Sigurdsson strike from the set-piece was parried by the Bolton shot stopper and Steven Caulker failed to score from the rebound.
Swansea continued to threaten in front of the Trotters goal and Graham came close again to scoring, but his shot hit the crossbar.
Eagles almost snatched the winning goal in stoppage time, but his shot went just a whisker wide of the mark.
Despite a late onslaught from both the sides, the match ended in a 1-1.
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