In the politest way possible, I found your style of play very dull. Plenty of possession, but next to no penetration. Your fans continually applaud backwards and sideways passes, and there seems to be very few players in your side capable of penetrating a defence, particularly when Hernandez went off. Bony and Chico (penalty incident aside) were your most impressive players IMO. Dyer had Parr squared up 1 on 1 numerous times, and each time Dyer would turn and go back. I find it bizarre that any winger at this level doesn't thrive on running at his man (see Bolasie). The whole performance just stunk of passing for the sake of passing.

I believe that possession football really is quite an ineffective way of playing, without the calibre of players Barcelona et al. posess. To try and build a penetrative possession based side requires world class players, and on Swansea's budget, that's not possible. Furthermore, I feel this insistence on playing said way is the reason your league position is as poor as it is, it's simply too easy to defend against.

Absolutely nothing against Swansea, just some views I have on football in general, which were certainly reinforced on Sunday.

A bigger reason for their league position is probably having the Europa League run they've had with such a small squad.

This x2
I was right next to them in the corner and they made plenty of noise was impressed.
Only missed Man city this season and Swansea have defo been the best home fans.

Agreed it can be successful in the Championship, but I think at Premiership level, it's generally too easy to defend against. Our side that faced swansea earlier in the season was barely premiership level.

Prior to this month they had a long break from Europa league fixtures, and still failed to pick up a significant amount of points.