Thursday, 25 September 2014

3 things we learned from Swansea's demolition job of Everton

Huw Richards looks at three things we can take from our Capital One Cup win over Everton



1. Jazz is classy.

With Angel Rangel's legs slowing down, and Dwight Tiendalli injured with a minor groin strain, the right-back slot was handed to Ashley 'Jazz' Richards. And boy did he do well. He was calm, collected, and if he did make a mistake (which was rarely) he rectified it immediately. Superb.

2. Federico Fernandez is good enough.

After signing from Napoli for £8,000,000, a lot of pressure was placed on Fede Fernandez's shoulders, but the former Estudiantes man delivered against the Toffees. He had Eto'o in his pocket for the whole of the first half and had Lukaku in it second half. Even when he got booked early on, he did exactly the right things to avoid a second. Like Jazz, he was superb.

3. Emnes is a threat.

Marvin Emnes returned to the club for a fee around the £1,500,000 mark, and he was brought here to inject pace and score a few goals when needed. Based on his awesome five minute display on Tuesday night (and last season's cameos) he can certainly do that.

Thanks to Huw as usual for his latest piece - give him a follow on Twitter @HuwRichards21