Fernando Llorente Last Minute Miracle Gives Swansea Second Win
Swansea City 5 - 4 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace were brought down by Swansea City at Liberty Stadium in a game of goals, 9 goals in total from both sides, two goals in the last minute gave Swansea their second win of the season.
Crystal Palace had lost five straight games before today which left them desperate for a win and Swansea had not known a win since their opening game,
Crystal Palace started out in good feet as they where able to get their goal just 19 minutes into the first 45 but equalized by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a free kick just 17 minutes after, which left both sides leveled at half time.
The second 45 minutes was all goal crazy as out of nine goals, seven were scored in the second 45. Leroy Fer the Dutch Defender started the goal craze in the 66th minute following up a rebound from Llorente's blocked header which was Llorente's first touch, his second came in the 68th minute, just two minutes after the first.
Crystal Palace fought back, coming two goals down to lead 3-4 in just 9 minutes, giving Pardew some minutes to Celebrate. A shot from the Swansea penalty box by James Tomkins gave Palace the second goal, an Own Goal, and some good finish from Christian Benteke had Crystal Palace reason to celebrate.
Fernando Llorente came from the bench to not only to give the Swansea side a second win, but also increase the loss tally for Crystal Palace all in the last minute
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