In the corresponding fixture on 5th Oct Swans were hit by a 90th minute winner:
Bottom club Stoke City earned a first Championship win of the season as they came from behind to stun Swansea City and knock them off the top of the table.
The Swans were ahead inside a minute when Andre Ayew tapped home a rebound.
Former Swans midfielder Sam Clucas levelled for the Potters midway through the first half, firing home after keeper Freddie Woodman parried Joe Allen's effort.
Stoke won it in the final moments when substitute Scott Hogan tapped home from close range.
I hope we wipe the smile off Clucas’s face on Saturday. Remember he over celebrated in front of the West Stand after scoring the equaliser for Stoke here this season.
Bought for £16.5 mill, he was given a four year contract on wages of 50k a week (so pocketed £2.6 mill for the year he was here). He played 29 games for the Swans in the PL, season 2017-18 and scored 3 goals. He was given away 12 months later for £6 mill to Stoke, when we had that infamous fire sale. He did almost nothing whilst here, was an embarrassment of a signing for such a high fee and wages, and was dubbed “Useless Clucas” or “Clueless” by the fans.
We had a strong team out that day -
Woodman, Roberts, Hoorn, Rodon, Naughton, Fulton, Grimes, Ayew, Dhanda, Celina, Baston
Stoke had three ex-Swans playing - Carter-Vickers, Clucas, Allen.
After match comments:
Steve Cooper
We fell short of our performance levels today and it cost us, we turned the ball over too many times. If you don't do the basics well enough it will cost you, it is that black and white and that was the case today. We made a perfect start and should build on that, but for some reason we didn't want to break forward... we weren't brave enough... we encouraged them to come onto us in hurtful areas and then the inevitable will happen.
We were not at the level required today and I thought in the end we didn't do enough to get a result. We didn't play to our identity.
Stoke's squad on paper is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, in the league, so I never looked at the league table.
We didn't get too high when things were going well and we won't get too low about this."