Swansea City earned a 2-1 win at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday to move onto 30 Premier League points.
Marc-Antoine Fortune put the Baggies ahead against the run of play early in the second half. However, Swansea’s response was swift as goals from Gylfi Siggurdsson and Danny Graham gave them only a second away win in the top flight.
Brendan Rodgers’ men had the better of it in a scoreless first half at the Hawthorns, with Sigurdsson, Angel Rangel and Joe Allen all having shots in the early stages.
Swansea's 4-5-1 formation became 4-3-3 every time they countered, unsettling the Baggies defence as Scott Sinclair repeatedly threatened. A free-kick from the ex-Chelsea man was booted just wide from 25 yards, before Graham wasted the visitors’ best chance of the first 45 minutes.
The former Watford man made light of an attempted challenge on him from Gareth McAuley as he got to Leon Britton’s free-kick. However, from 12 yards, he then blasted wide with only goalkeeper Ben Foster to beat.
McAuley and Fortune could not convert rare half-chances for Roy Hodgson’s side, before Siggurdsson got a block in to Jonas Olsson’s goalbound flick.
After a first half of missed chances, the second began with a succession of further opportunities. And this time goals were forthcoming!
Despite their being rather dominated in the first half it was West Brom who hit the front. They won a corner, which was swung in from the left by Graham Dorrans and flicked on by Olsson for Fortune to tap in from six yards.
The visitors were aggrieved to go behind, but responded brilliantly and were level within a minute. Hodgson’s defence was caught cold as Britton and the Swans broke down the left, from where Neil Taylor crossed for on-loan Hoffenheim man Sigurdsson to side-foot his first Swansea goal past Foster.
And the Icelander soon played his part in Swansea taking a deserved lead. Sigurdsson got the ball on the right and no Baggies defender was able to prevent his low cross from reaching Graham, who slid in to beat Foster.
As the Swans chased a third, Olsson took the ball off the feet of Graham and Nathan Dyer shot just wide. Their lead, however, was only kept intact minutes later when Peter Odemwingie somehow kicked too high when picked out unmarked in the Swansea area by Dorrans.
Olsson then blocked from Dyer , while Fortune missed two chances to save a point for West Brom.