Report | Swansea City 1 Leicester City 3
Swansea City suffered a first home defeat since March as two stunning individual strikes helped Leicester City take the spoils at the Swansea.com Stadium.
Jordan James gave the Foxes the lead with an excellent curling effort and they retained the advantage at the break.
Swansea looked to have secured a draw when Adam Idah netted his first goal for the club from the penalty spot following a good period of pressure, but Abdul Fatawu would fire home an unstoppable shot to restore Leicester’s lead.
And Jannik Vestergaard nodded in a third late on for the visitors.
The scoreline was harsh on the Swans, who had their chances with Zan Vipotnik having a shot well saved by Jakub Stolarczyk, while Cameron Burgess also had a good opportunity.
The Swans – showing three changes from the win over Blackburn as Liam Cullen, Jisung Eom and Ronald came into the team – saw the visitors have the first big chance when James fired over the bar after an attempted headed clearance.
In blustery conditions, the hosts responded well. Eom and Ronald both fired at Jakub Stolarczyk at the end of flowing attacking sequences.
But it was the visitors who took the lead through Wales international James.
The midfielder received the ball on the left side of the area, before cutting inside and dispatching a superb curling strike into the far corner of the net.
It took a good recovery block from Burgess to deny Fatawu after the Leicester press had seen Swansea lost the ball deep in their own territory.
Swansea had a decent spell of possession around the half-hour, with Josh Tymon’s low cross being parried away for a corner, but the set-piece came to nothing.
Cullen had a shot blocked after good pressing work while, at the other end, important blocks denied Jeremy Monga and then Fatawu in quick succession.
The Swans remained behind at the break but had a sight of goal early in the second half when Burgess met a free-kick and the ball bobbled around the area, only for Stolarczyk to eventually claim.
Vigouroux comfortably gathered in Monga’s strike from the edge of the box after one incisive Leicester attack before Stolarczyk made a brilliant stop at the other end.
Josh Key’s pass fed Ronald into space and Vipotnik met the Brazilian’s cross with a firm strike, but the Leicester keeper got a strong hand to it.
Luke Thomas then just managed to pinch the ball off the Slovenian’s toes as he slalomed towards goal as Swansea began to get on top of proceedings.
But Leicester came through that spell and nearly doubled their lead when James held off the attentions of two defenders to plant a left-footed strike against the inside of the post.
Just moments later Swansea levelled. Ethan Galbraith, just on as a sub, chased down a ball into the Leicester area and was brought down by Wout Faes close to the byline and the referee pointed to the spot.
Idah stepped up and calmly rolled the ball into the bottom corner to level matters and raise hopes of a second come-from-behind win in the space of four days.
But Fatawu’s restored the visitors’ lead with a stunning effort that was almost a mirror image of James. The winger cut infield and unleashed a high, curling strike that Vigouroux could do nothing about as it sailed into the top corner.
Fatawu then hit the bar with a strike from almost the halfway line, with Vigouroux tipping Daka’s follow-up over the woodwork, before Vestergaard nodded home the clincher.
Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux; Josh Key, Ben Cabango (captain), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon; Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco (Malick Yalcouye 83), Liam Cullen (Ethan Galbraith 67); Ronald (Manuel Benson 83); Jisung Eom (Zeidane Inoussa 66); Žan Vipotnik (Adam Idah 66).
Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Kaelan Casey.
Leicester City: Jakub Stolarczyk, Wout Faes, Jordan James (Boubakary Soumare 86), Abdul Fatawu (Silko-Amari Thomas 86), Harry Winks, Bobby Decordova-Reid (Aaron Ramsey 58), Patson Daka, Ricardo Pereira (captain) (Caleb Okoli 90), Jannik Vestergaard, Jeremy Monga (Julian Carranza 86), Luke Thomas.
Substitutes: Asmir Begovic, Jordan Ayew, Hamza Choudhury, Oliver Skipp.
Referee: David Webb
Attendance: 16,601