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Sat 25 Oct 2014 14.29 EDTFirst published on Sat 25 Oct 2014 11.45 EDT
Ashley Williams goes to ground. David Nugent goes to air.
Ashley Williams goes to ground. David Nugent goes to air. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images
Ashley Williams goes to ground. David Nugent goes to air. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images

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Swansea’s little winless sequences is over with a win that takes them back into the top six. They demonstrated again here that they are just that bit too refined for teams such as Leicester, who persevered in the second half but looked short of fluency and, at times, confidence – as Cambiasso’s remarkable late miss illustrated. Both Swansea’s goals were well worked, particularly the first, which was a delight. Bony, Sigurdsson and Routledge combined well when they were all on the pitch together and Montero always looked a threat. So that’s all from me tonight. Thanks for your company and your emails in the face of Enormo-Match on the other side. Bye.

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90+2mins: Ulloa skids accidentally into Fabianski, who is toppled in comedy fashion and looks in vain for a free-kick.

90 mins: Ulloa tries a bit of trickery outside the Swansea area but he’s been closed down effectively all evening and is dispossessed again. Then Leicester somehow don’t score! Fabianski could only palm a header away to Cambiassio, who remarkably fails to find the empty net, helping it lamely onto a post. We have three added minutes.

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89 mins: Shelvey almost fouls De Laet inside the area, then actually does, outside it, to concede a free-kick. It’s curled in tantalisingly, but Fabianski is fouled as he goes to gather it. Three points are surely Swansea’s.

87 mins: Leicester fans are evidently beginning to drift away, as the home crowd’s songs rejoice in their departure. Montero’s trickery inside his own half creates space for another Swansea attack, but Routledge ruins this opportunity by being offside.

85 mins: Gomis starts a break when he supplies Dyer on the right, but Montero is thwarted when the ball makes its way out left. Leicester go forward, but Swansea now have men behind the ball and Nugent can’t find a way past Rangel and the ball is gathered by Fabianski.

83 mins: Swansea substitutions - Dyer for Routledge, Gomis for Bony, who has been excellent but won’t now be departing with the matchball.

80 mins: Leicester lose possession, Routledge embarks on a 30-yard break before feeding Bony, who for once makes a mess of it and Leicester see off the danger.

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79 mins: Swansea knock it long! Ashley Williams breaks up a Leicester attack with a gargantuan whack downfield which is almost majestic in its agricultural directness. The keeper gathers.

78 mins: Swansea are showing their style again now. Rangel’s chipped ball on the right finds Routledge in space, but the cross is turned behind for a corner, which is squandered.

76 mins: Montero scorches clear of De Laet after clever combinations on the left, but although he’s quick, he’s not quick enough to stop the ball skidding out for a goalkick. Bony then finds Shelvey on another quick break, but the latter’s pass to Routledge is just a little too ambitious.

74 mins: The Enormous Game in Spain has now finished, so let’s be hearing from you. At this middle-sized game in Wales, Leicester are still plugging away in hope of getting something from this game, but their possession isn’t leading to much in the way of chances. Swansea should be able to see this out.

71 mins: Mahrez has another attempt, cutting inside from the right before forcing Fabianski to dive to his left and save with his low left-footed shot.

70 mins: De Laet has looked effective getting up and down on the right for Leicester and almost gets in behind the Swansea defence but the home side clear. The visitors regain possession, and King tries to win a free-kick after running at, and into, Taylor.

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67 mins: Triple Leicester substitution – James, Cambiasso and King on for Vardy, Hammond and Drinkwater, who’d just won his team a throw in a promising position on the left. From it, the ball is worked out to the busy Mahrez on the right but his cross is headed clear.

66 mins: Mahrez has a go from distance, his low left-foot drive from 20 yards skiming wide of the left-hand post.

“Would you agree that Bony is among the most underrated strikers to hit the Premier League in recent years,” wonders Nick Cooke. “I’m amazed he hasn’t been snapped up by a bigger club.” He’s certainly a big asset to Swansea, embellishing their passing game with a serious goalscoring threat, though he’s had his occasional indifferent moments.

63 mins: Off the bar! Shelvey sizes up his options then belts the ball goalwards from 25 yards and it thuds back off the crossbar. Then Routledge weaves into the Leicester area and has a half-shout for a penalty after being challenged. The home side are reasserting themselves again now.

62 mins: Konchesky loses the ball on a Leicester attack, and Swansea break. It’s worked out to Montero and Shelvey, but the latter’s ball in is poor and Leicester go forward again. Dean Hammond’s neat cross from the right is met by a weak-ish header from Ulloa that Fabianski gathers.

58 mins: Swansea substitution: Sigurdsson, having played his part in another goal, is replaced by Carroll.

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Goal! Swansea 2-0 Leicester (Bony, 57)

But wouldn’t you know, Swansea break and score. Sigurdsson and Montero combine on the left before the latter squares to Bony, who’s not been properly picked up. The Ivorian slots home his second of the match. Against the run of play it has to be said.

Wilfried Bony strokes in Swansea’s second goal. Photograph: Kieran McManus/BPI/REX
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56 mins: Drinkwater tries his luck from distance, with an angled 25-yard drive. It stings Fabianski’s palms a touch, but is comfortably saved. Leicester come again though, but Konchesky’s ball in from the left is poor. Swansea, and their supporters, oozing anxiety

55 mins: Swansea’s first chance of the half comes as Bony seizes on a mistake – and possible handball – by Drinkwater, drives forward but slices his left-footed shot high and wide

53 mins: A long spell of Leicester possession culminates in a corner, as the hitherto quiet Nugent feeds De Laet whose low cross is turned behind. The visitors play it short, and mess it up.

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51 mins: A promising looking Swansea break begins, as Bony feeds Routledge who lays off to Sigurdsson and Williams, who wins a throw. Which is wasted.

49 mins: Another Leicester shot. Rangel gives the ball away sloppily to Mahrez, who forges forward but sends his effort way over the bar from 20 yards. In a slightly clumsy fashion, Nigel Pearson’s side have begun this half well.

48 mins: Leicester chance! A long throw from the right bounces across the Swansea area, which deceives everyone and Shelvey almost helps it into the roof of the net but it bounces on top of the bar and over. The home side looked genuinely flummoxed, by nothing, there.

47 mins: Leicester win a free-kick in a promising position on the left. Mahrez curls it in, way beyond any of his team-mates and Fabianski palms it away.

Peep!

The second half is underway, Leicester kicking off. No team changes detectable.

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Half-time sacking news: Leeds haven’t dismissed a manager for a while, so have decided to hand Darko Milanic his P45. Story to follow on the site.

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