Swansea vs Blackburn 4-0

Swansea beat Blackburn 4-0 at the Swansea.com Stadium, taking the game away from the visitors with three first-half goals and adding a fourth after the break. Stephen Eustáquio, Joseph Amankwaah Opoku, Filip Lissah and Ross Stewart scored for the home side.

Eustáquio opened the scoring in the 11th minute, steering in from Joseph Amankwaah Opoku to make it 1-0. Opoku doubled the lead on 32 minutes, before Lissah, assisted by Stephen Welsh, made it 3-0 in the 36th minute. Swansea were 3-0 up at half-time.

Stewart added the fourth on 59 minutes from Eom Ji-Sung to make it 4-0. Swansea made two changes on 62 minutes, with Ross Stewart going off for Zan Vipotnik and Melker Widell replaced by Goncalo Franco, then used further substitutions for Josh Tymon, Stephen Eustáquio and Filip Lissah later on. Blackburn had already made two changes at the interval, then brought on Yuki Ohashi and Yuri Ribeiro in the closing stages, but they never found a way back into the match.

The numbers backed Swansea’s control. They had 68% of the possession, 687 passes to Blackburn’s 344, 20 shots to 7 and 9 on target to 2. Blackburn were still left with more corners, 2 to 1, and more fouls, 16 to 9, while Swansea also finished with 2 saves to Blackburn’s 5 and an xG figure of 2.35 to 0.31.

Blackburn’s only booking went to Moussa Baradji on 22 minutes. There were no red cards.