Liverpool back in second after 4-1 win
LAmerican coach Bob Bradley was fired as Swansea manager yesterday, less than three months after taking charge at the English Premier League club.
Swansea announced Bradley’s departure a day after the team’s 4-1 home loss to West Ham.
Bradley won two of his 11 games in charge after replacing Francesco Guidolin to become the first coach from the United iverpool’s prolific forward line delivered again in a 4-1 win over Stoke in the English Premier League yesterday, lifting the team back into second place and within six points of Chelsea.
Liverpool fought back from conceding in the 12th minute at Anfield, with Brazil forward Roberto Firmino among the scorers with his sixth league goal of the season — three days after he was charged by police with drunk-driving in Liverpool city centre.
Playmaker Adam Lallana equalised for the Reds in the 34th and Firmino added the second just before half-time.
FIRST LEAGUE GOAL
Liverpool stretched the lead in the second half through an owngoal by Giannelli Imbula and Daniel Sturridge’s first league goal of the season with his first touches after coming on as a substitute.
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Swansea are next to last in the standings, only above Hull on goal difference with nearly half the season gone.
SHORT PERIOD
“We are sorry to lose Bob after such a short period of time,” Swansea Chairman Huw Jenkins said in a statement. “Unfortunately, things haven’t worked out as planned and we felt we had to make the change with half the Premier League sea- Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United on Monday with their own a day later, and it was the sixth time this season that Juergen Klopp’s team has scored four goals or more in a league game. It is no surprise that the Reds are the top scorers in the division with 45 goals in 18 games.
Liverpool’s players only got going son remaining.”
Bradley arrived at Liberty Stadium with a strong reputation after spells at clubs in Norway and France, as well as stints as coach of the US and Egypt national teams. But he couldn’t halt Swansea’s slide, with the team conceding 29 goals during his time in charge. once they fell behind to a rare Stoke goal at Anfield.
Erik Pieters provided the cross from the left and Jon Walters glanced in a header at the near post that Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet got a hand to but couldn’t keep out. It was only Stoke’s third league goal away to Liverpool in 40 years.
Garath McCleary said Reading were looking to be formidable on home turf following their 3-1 victory over 10man Norwich City on Monday. The Jamaica international hit a 68th minute goal from a missed penalty, as the Royals clinched their fifth consecutive English League Championship victory against the Canaries at the Madejski Stadium, the club’s ground.
“It’s been going really well,” McCleary said on the club’s website. “[This] game was obviously really tough – Norwich are a good team and on their day they can beat anyone.
“They have a lot of players that were playing in the Premier League as recently as last season, so it’s good to get three points – and roll on Fulham, who we owe!
“We’re trying to make this place a fortress, where we don’t get beat too often. We don’t want to get beat anywhere, but especially not at home. It was a good win, especially against a tough team like Norwich.”
McCleary’s goal, hit on the rebound from a Yann Kermorgant penalty, was the middle of the three – and reestablished a lead after Nelson Oliveira had equalised for Norwich.
Kermorgant had opened the scoring by guiding in a header from Liam Kelly’s free kick, and Callum Harriott hammered in a thunderbolt in added time to round off the scoring.