Bradley’s debut day ruined

BOB BRADLEY’S first game as Swansea manager ended in defeat as his side were narrowly beaten by 10-man Arsenal in an entertaining clash.

The Swans had won here on their previous two visits and had not lost away to Arsenal in more than five years but, despite threatening a comeback, they succumbed to a narrow loss that sent the Gunners level with Manchester City at the top.

Theo Walcott was allbut gifted a brace to put Arsenal in charge, but Granit Xhaka, who would later be sent off by referee Jon Moss, handed possession to Gylfi Sigurdsson to bring Bradley’s side back into the game.

Birthday boy Mesut Ozil restored Arsenal’s two-goal cushion with a well-taken volley, but a first Swansea goal for record-signing Borja Baston kept things nervy for the Gunners, who played with 10 men for the final 20 minutes after Xhaka was shown a straight red card for bringing down the impressive Modou Barrow.

Shkodran Mustafi headed Ozil’s corner against the crossbar before the visitors could have opened the scoring when Leroy Fer was picked out by Kyle Naughton, only for the Holland international to bend a shot over Petr Cech’s goal.

Arsenal were soon on top and took the lead as Hector Bellerin headed Sanchez’s pass across goal where Jordi Amat dallied, allowing Walcott to nip in and put Arsenal in front from close range.

The hosts had their tails up and only a smart stop from their former keeper Lukasz Fabianski kept Swansea in the game as Bellerin was released at the end of a flowing move, only to see his effort turned behind.

But it was a small respite as the second goal came from the resulting