Lallana was replaced by Daniel Sturridge but he found it tough going as well and was booked for diving in
the Swansea penalty area by referee Michael Oliver as Liverpool resorted to desperate measures against measured opponents for whom Sigurdsson shone.
Not exact matches
Mess around on the edge of the
penalty area without being incisive... exactly the same problem as
Swansea
Swansea felt they had a lifeline seconds before the interval when Ki Sung - yueng burst into the
penalty area and went down under Laurent Koscielny's challenge.
Welbeck orbited in support of Van Persie, typically moving to the left when Giggs was not there, but in the game against
Swansea he also made a series of bursts into the
penalty area from central positions, as his two goals demonstrated.