Chapter 1: What were Swansea's strengths in the first half against Liverpool?
Swansea have lost again, but they had a good first half when they took the game to Liverpool. Leroy Fir with his fourth goal of the season. He remains their top scorer. Liverpool much improved in the second half. What a header from Roberto Firmino. What a ball in from Henderson as well. They've got it back to all square. And then the moment of madness from Swansea.
Ranghill in the end giving away the penalty. James Milner does not miss from the spot this season. His fourth goal from the penalty spot this season and it is a fourth Premier League win in a row. But my goodness, Swansea nearly denied a net right at the end.
Chapter 2: How did Liverpool improve in the second half of the match?
Mike van der Hoorn in at it on time with a miss you might expect from a centre-half. And this is the tale of the tape. Liverpool 2-1 winners, 18 attempts to Swansea's eight, six on target to Swansea's three. Liverpool covering 112 kilometres today, three more than Swansea, but it's at the lowest distance they have covered this season from the visitors.
59% possession, not quite the 74% that we saw against Hull last weekend. So a good day from Liverpool. Let's hear from Jordan Henderson and James Milner, who are both alongside Patrick Davison.
Chapter 3: What led to the penalty awarded to Liverpool?
Guys, well played. Jordan, because you had to fight and scrap and dig in, is that almost the sort of win you enjoy more?
Yeah, definitely. First half, it wasn't really.
Chapter 4: How did James Milner perform from the penalty spot?
We weren't playing to our standards, really, especially the first 25, 30 minutes. We didn't come out of the blocks quick enough and Swansea punished us, really, from the set-piece.
Disappointing, but I thought last 10-15 of the first half we got going again, got our rhythm, came in at half-time, obviously the manager had a few words to say in the second half, I thought we came out and were brilliant.
James, what was said at half-time? Did it need to be better?
Yeah, of course it did. I think we all knew that. Big credit to the manager and all the boys as well. The manager knew it.
Chapter 5: What were the key statistics from the match?
He was angry, but he kept most of it in and said what needed to be said and got us going. I think you saw in the second half it was more like how we'd been playing and getting about the ball in the first half.
We weren't really at the races and they're a good team, so we gave ourselves all the work to do, but it shows a lot of character to come back from a goal down away from home and get three points.
You're getting plenty of practice, but these penalties seem to be getting cooler and cooler, don't they?
As long as they end up in the back of the net, that's all I'm bothered about.
It was a big goal, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was a big moment in the game, obviously, and we had chances during the second half, so it was important we took that, and thankfully it went in the net and we've got the three points.
Jordan, it is your best Premier League run under Jurgen Klopp.
Are you a different animal this season? I definitely think we've improved as time's gone on. We've had a good pre-season together, I think that was important, and now we've started to set the standard of every week playing the way we've been playing and we've just got to continue that.
So hopefully we just keep on going, keep working hard, keep our feet on the ground and keep doing what we've been doing. Well done.
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Chapter 6: What did Jordan Henderson and James Milner say about the match?
He's got it at the target. He's just got it. I mean, he's a centre-back in the box. That's why they're centre-backs, because they don't score them. On another day, that goes in, they get a draw. But I've got to feel sorry for the manager. He made two changes, brought the two midfield players on, took Leon Britton off, and it looked like they were going to get battered at one stage.
Were they running out of steam at one point in the second half? Yeah, and he brought them two on and... They've done really well, weathered the storm, and all of a sudden they started creeping back out of their half, they couldn't get out of their half, they started getting up, their barrel was carrying the fight down the right, and they get a chance at the end to make it 2-2, and the managers...
safe and happy, and now it'll all be fingers pointing at him.
Well, Britton was taken off, but before that he gave away the free kick, which initially the home side defended well, but the follow-up, the ball in from Henderson, the header from Firmino, how good?
Yeah, well, the initial free kick's not great from Coutinho, but that ball in there from Henderson... I mean, you know, the pitch is wet, it's raining, and this touch here, the ball spinning, it's a fantastic touch from Jordan Henderson. The ball back in, the weight of it is absolutely perfect. It's a brilliant header. It's a great header. He knows exactly what he's doing for Mignot.
He's placed it.
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Chapter 7: How did the managers assess their teams' performances?
Down into the ground. So he gives Fabianski no chance, and that's a good goal, that's a really good goal.
It's not the first phase, we always say about set plays, it's not always the first phase that's the danger, sometimes it's the second phase, and Swansea being done in the first phase, the free kick from Guatini was at the wall, it's gone to a Liverpool player, and Swansea have knocked off defensively.
As the ball's coming out, they're following the ball, they're not looking to see what's around them, great ball back in from Jordan Henderson and a great finish.
You're always a bit vulnerable on that second phase, around the back, because... You know, your defenders are running out the box and their midfield players on the edge can see what's going on and time their run. So if the ball's lifted in like Henderson's put in with the right weight on it, you can actually stay onside and just get in there.
So I thought it was a great ball from Henderson, but an even better header.
In terms of the penalty that ends up deciding the game from a Swansea point of view, a catalogue of errors is the best way to describe it? Four.
This is just losing your composure. Barrow, he's back in there. That's a slash when he's only just got to hook it. There's another mistake there, head it. Then he missed, kicked the ball completely, and then he gives the penalty away. So there's one mistake. Go and head the ball now. There's two. He's missed it with his foot. There's three. And then he panics and just runs into him.
Surprising for Mangel because... He's an experienced player, but that's just hanging on, not getting results, anxiousness creeping in, can we hang on?
And you end up panicking and giving... And talking of panic, this man doesn't panic from the spot, just oozing with confidence in those situations now, isn't he?
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of this match for both teams moving forward?
And just looking at a penalty incident from the first half, not given in the end, it was involving Daniel Sturridge, and in the end he picks up a yellow card from Michael Oliver. What was your take on this?
Well, he's a really clever player, isn't he, Sturridge? And I think he's seen the gap there and he thinks, I've got to get in there and go on, foul me, he's thinking. And I think Routledge has just used his body strength and he's just bounced off him. If that happens in the centre circle, it's just out-strengthened him. I don't think that's a penalty. Sturridge is looking for it.
He's done the right thing going for the gap and then he's hoping that they foul him and he's waiting for the contact to go over.
That's not a penalty.
No.
No, that's not a penalty.
Right, let's look at the Liverpool of the second half. In terms of how they played, what were the differences to what we saw first half?
Well, they just had better movement in front of the ball. They were getting this man on it more, Coutinho. When they were playing those little give-and-goes, little one-twos, it was really difficult to play against them. Like I said, the ball speed was much faster. They were having less touches, more one-and-two touch. And they were really driving forward.
And this guy, Mane, is so quick, so direct. And when they get that type of movement, it's very difficult for any defence to cope with it. And it looked like it was a matter of time before Liverpool got that breakthrough. You see them here, they're hunting together again. They win it, like Dean talked about before the game, and then they're off. One, two, three, four, five, six of them.
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