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SWANSEA v TOTTENHAM RECAP: Stunning Eriksen brace gives Spurs share of points with Swans

Swansea City and Tottenham Hotspur drew 2-2 at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday.


Spurs twice came from being a goal down to clinch a point on the road, extending their unbeaten streak to seven matches in the Premier League.

Andre Ayew drew first blood for the Swans when he headed home Jefferson Montero's cross in the 16th minute before Christian Eriksen fired home a free-kick just over 10 minutes later.

A disastrous hacked own-goal from Harry Kane just after the half-hour mark edged Garry Monk's side ahead once again but Danish playmaker Eriksen again stepped up to a dead ball situation to curl a sublime equaliser into Lukasz Fabianski's top corner with 25 minutes remaining.

The draw saw Swansea occupying 11th position at the end of the weekend'ss round of games with Mauricio Pochettino's Spurs sitting eighth.


MATCH OVERVIEW

Swansea City: 2 (Andre Ayew 16', Harry Kane (OG) 31')
Tottenham Hotspur: 2 (Christian Eriksen 27'/65')
Liberty Stadium, Swansea - 20,845


TALKING POINTS

- Swansea looked a lot better than last weekend's loss to Southampton. Does Monk have them on the mend?

- Is Eriksen the Premier League's finest exponent of set-piece situations?



WHAT'S NEXT?

Swansea return to action after the international break with a home fixture against Stoke City on Monday, October 19 - two days after Tottenham host Liverpool at White Hart Lane.



TWITTER INSIGHT




QUOTES CORNER

Tottenham's Pochettino on the result and performance:

"We have maybe dropped two points. We were a bit unlucky, you need luck in football to win the game, and we played better than Swansea."


Swansea boss Monk on the improvement his side made:

"We were much more like ourselves. We talked all week about getting back to our level, and you could see the passion and the desire we had to win the game was massive."



STATS SPECIALS
*Thanks to Opta



TEAM LEADERS

SWANSEA
Goals - Andre Ayew, Bafetimbi Gomis 4
Assists - Jefferson Montero 2
Clean sheets - Lukasz Fabianski 2
Yellow cards - Jonjo Shelvey, Andre Ayew 3


TOTTENHAM
Goals - Eric Dier, Christian Eriksen 2
Assists - Christian Eriksen, Erik Lamela 2
Clean sheets - Hugo Lloris 3
Yellow cards - Eric Dier 5

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