Paul Clement

Swansea's bid to survive relegation to the Championship had just been dealt the significant blow of a 4-0 defeat at home by Arsenal when they were scheduled to visit Liverpool at Anfield. Paul Clement had been appointed their third manager of 2016/17 when he arrived in January, with their Premier League status particularly under threat.

Francesco Guidolin and then Bob Bradley had until then worked with a team that was bottom of the Premier League when Clement agreed to become manager. Speaking exclusively to The Coaches’ Voice, the former Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich coach revisits the tactics Swansea used to secure the unlikeliest and most crucial of victories over Liverpool, before they eventually succeeded in climbing clear of the bottom three.

Starting line-ups

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Swansea4-3-3

22Simon Mignolet

1Lukasz Fabianski

2Nathaniel Clyne

26Kyle Naughton

17Ragnar Klavan

33Federico Fernández

6Dejan Lovren

6Alfie Mawson

7James Milner

16Martin Olsson

14Jordan Henderson

24Jack Cork

23Emre Can

8Leroy Fer

5Georginio Wijnaldum

42Tom Carroll

20Adam Lallana

15Wayne Routledge

10Philippe Coutinho

23Gylfi Sigurdsson

11Roberto Firmino

9Fernando Llorente

Author: Ali Tweedale