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Swansea v Burnley

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keith margam

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Swansea v Burnley Mon 2 Jan 15:00
What a way to round off the year, a resounding victory and a double over the Hornets to end our winless run and bounce us back up the table.
Martin said the players were upset by some of the criticism of them in social media this week, but they well and truly answered those critics, and every player played their part in the demolition of Watford.
Turning to our next match, another at home, and it couldn’t be tougher, It’s Burnley, who are running away with it at the top of the table, and have only lost 2 from 25 matches this season, scoring 50 goals in the process, including the 4-0 drubbing they gave us up there.
Swans last 6 home WWWDLW
Clarets last 6 away WDWLWW
We welcome back ex-Swans Jack Cork and Connor Roberts and hope their return is pointless, pun intended.
 
Swans 1 (Cooper 27’) - Clarets 2 (Maatsen 12’, 22’)
Swans: Steven Benda,Joel Latibeaudiere, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Ryan Manning, Jay Fulton (Cundle 58’), Matt Grimes (c), Joe Allen (Ntcham 59’), Ollie Cooper (Sorinola 85’), Liam Cullen (Congreve 78’), Joel Piroe.
Subs: Andy Fisher, Olivier Ntcham, Luke Cundle, Nathan Wood, Kyle Naughton, Matty Sorinola, Cameron Congreve .

The difference was Maatsen, the on loan Chelsea left-back, with a brilliant free-kick and a 25 yard shot that Benda should have saved.
 
Here’s how Vincent Kompany completely transformed Burnley last summer after their relegation from the PL and has got them runaway leaders at the top of the table within six months:

Out
Nathan Collins to Wolves £20.5m
Dwight McNeil to Everton £20m
Maxwel Cornet to West Ham £17.5m
Nick Pope to Newcastle £12m
Total £70m

In
Arijanet Muric, goalkeeper, £3m Man City
Darco Churlinov, left-winger, £3m Stuttgart
Vitinho, right-back, £900k Cercle Brugge
Josh Cullen, central-midfield, £3m Anderlecht
Samuel Bastien, central-midfield, £700k Standard Leige
S Twine, attacking-midfield, £2.9m MK Dons
Anass Zaroury, left-winger, £3.5m RSC Charleroi
Benson Hedilazio, right-winger, £3.5m Royal Antwerp
Luke McNally, centre-back, £1.85m Oxford Utd
Total £22.35m

Loan players in:
Halil Dervisoglu, centre-forward, Brentford
Ian Maatsen, left-back, Chelsea
Taylor Harwood-Bellis, centre-back, Man City
Jordan Beyer, centre-back, Borussia M
Nathan Tella, right-winger, Southampton
 
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