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Improving Swansea undone by defensive frailties against Arsenal

A positive first half performance by Swansea was buried under a four goal avalanche from Arsenal, with bad bounces and bad defending conspiring to sink the Swans again.

Positives

Swansea looked much more like the team of old for much of the first half. Their passing style has returned quickly under Paul Clement, appropriately resurfacing against the big side that Swansea have always aspired to emulate.

Players who had not been performing under Bob Bradley, such as Ki Sung-Yueng and Federico Fernandez, are enjoying a renaissance, while Oliver McBurnie and Borja Baston made promising cameo appearances.