Swansea 0-4 Arsenal - As it happened

Swansea 0-4 Arsenal - As it happened

Re-live Arsenal's convincing 4-0 victory away at Swansea looking back at the live updates of the match, as it happened.

FULL-TIME: Swansea 0-4 Arsenal

After an even first half, Arsenal have produced a convincing second half performance and take a relatively simple three points.

Baston heads over

Swansea's record signing almost gets on the scoresheet as he heads just over from a cross from the right.

Xhaka tries from distance

The Arsenal midfielder hits one from outside the area, but Fabianski gets down well to his left to save.

Second change for Arsenal

Sanchez leaves the field and is replaced by Welbeck.

Sanchez adds a fourth

Oxlade-Chamberlain's cross is cut out by Routledge, but he can only guide the ball into Sanchez's path and the Chilean fires home from close range.

GOAL: Swansea 0-4 Arsenal (Sanchez, 73 mins)

First change for Swansea

Cork leaves the field and is replaced by McBurnie.

Naughton puts the ball into his own net

Iwobi produces some trickery down the left before playing a low cross across goal. Naughton tries to clear, but puts the ball into his own net.

GOAL: Swansea 0-3 Arsenal (Naughton o.g, 67 mins)

Routledge fires straight at Cech

The Swansea winger tries to hit one on the turn, but fires his shot straight at Cech who holds the ball.

Arsenal make a change

As expected in the first half, Giroud leaves the field and is replaced by Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Iwobi doubles Arsenal's lead

The Nigerian winger's shot takes a huge deflection of Cork and loops over Fabianski to double the Gunners' lead.

GOAL: Swansea 0-2 Arsenal (Iwobi, 54 mins)

Ramsey almost doubles the lead

The Welshman receives a pass around eight yards from goal, but his low effort is well saved by the feet of Fabianski.

Second half underway

Llorente kicks off for Swansea and the second half is underway.

HALF-TIME: Swansea 0-1 Arsenal

Arsenal lead at half-time thanks to Olivier Giroud's close range effort. However, Swansea will feel aggrieved not to be at least level, as they have had the better chances and arguably should have had a penalty when Ki was brought down in the box.

Swansea penalty appeal turned down

Swansea midfielder Ki appears to be brought down by Koscielny in the area, but instead of winning a penalty, the South Korean is booked for diving.

Giroud struggling with injury

The Frenchman appeared to injure himself in the process of scoring and appears to be in some discomfort. Oxlade-Chamberlain is warming up in case he comes off.

Giroud puts Arsenal ahead

Sanchez crosses for Ozil and the German's header is blocked. It falls for Giroud just six yards out and he finishes into the roof of the net.

GOAL: Swansea 0-1 Arsenal (Giroud, 38 mins)

Fabianski saves Sanchez effort

Sanchez shoots from just outside the area, but the former Arsenal 'keeper gets down comfortably to save the Chilean's effort.

Giroud heads at Fabianski

A half chance for Arsenal as Giroud gets on the end of a Mesut Ozil corner, but his header is weak and straight at the Swansea 'keeper.

Sigurdsson fires over

It's a bright start from Paul Clement's side, as Sigurdsson has their second chance of the match, firing over a shot from just oustide the area.

Swansea almost take the lead

Naughton hits a half volley from the edge of the box, but Cech gets down well to his right to turn the ball behind.

Match underway

Giroud kicks off for Arsenal and we're underway in south Wales.

Arsenal can move up to top four, Swansea can climb out of bottom three

A win for Arsene Wenger's men will see them move up to fourth and could move up to third with a winning margin of over three goals. Meanwhile, Swansea can cilmb out of the bottom three with a victory and will leapfrog Sunderland and Crystal Palace with three points.

Official line-ups announced

Swansea City XI: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Kingsley, Ki, Cork, Sigurdsson, Dyer, Llorente, Routledge.

Subs: Nordfeldt, Rangel, van der Hoorn, Fulton, Fer, Borja, McBurnie.

Arsenal XI: Cech, Gabriel, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Ramsey, Xhaka, Alexis, Ozil, Iwobi, Giroud.

Subs: Ospina, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Reine-Adelaide, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lucas, Welbeck.

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