Everton 3-1 Swansea City: result and report
Premier League · Monday 18 December 2017
Result
Everton 3-1 Swansea City
Premier League · Monday 18 December 2017, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Everton 3-1 Swansea City: match report
Everton defeated Swansea City 3-1 in the Premier League on Monday 18 December 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.
Leroy Fer opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Everton's goals came from Dominic Calvert-Lewin (45+2'), Dejan Joksimovic (64') and Wayne Rooney (73', penalty). Swansea City scored through Leroy Fer (35').
Discipline: Everton received 2 yellow cards; Swansea City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Everton were 10th on 22 points from 17 and Swansea City 20th on 12 points from 17. Everton went on to finish that season 8th with 49 points, and Swansea City 18th with 33.
Everton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Swansea City in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Dominic Calvert-Lewin of Everton (7.8), ahead of Jonjoe Kenny (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Everton wins, 5 draws and 2 for Swansea City.
Key events
- 29'Yellow card · Mason Holgate
- 35'Goal · Leroy Fer
- 37'Yellow card · Nathan Dyer
- 45+2'Missed penalty · Wayne Rooney
- 45+2'Goal · Dominic Calvert-Lewin
- 52'Yellow card · Federico Fernández
- 64'Goal · Dejan Joksimovic
- 73'Penalty goal · Wayne Rooney
- 83'Yellow card · Jonjoe Kenny
- 84'Yellow card · Leroy Fer
Head-to-head
Team news
Everton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jordan Pickford, Jonjoe Kenny, Mason Holgate, Ashley Williams, Cuco Martina, Idrissa Gueye, Morgan Schneiderlin, Aaron Lennon, Wayne Mark Rooney, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Swansea City line-up (4-3-3)
Lukasz Fabianski, Kyle Naughton, Federico Fernández, Alfie Mawson, Martin Olsson, Leroy Fer, Roque Mesa, Tom Carroll, Luciano Narsingh, Wilfried Bony, Nathan Dyer