Article from our First Football Brief series looking at different football matches and league fixtures throughout the history of football, highlighting key players, managers and football facts. This piece provides 10 top facts from Swansea's matches against Liverpool FC
2. OVERVIEW
Swansea Versus Liverpool
This presentation - written on 28th September, 2016 - features 10 key facts
from matches played in this English football fixture throughout history.
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3. 1
Swansea Versus Liverpool
Swansea Town first played Liverpool on 11th January, 1936, just nine days
before the death of King George V, in a third-round FA Cup tie at Anfield
which Liverpool won 1.0.
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4. 2
Swansea Versus Liverpool
Swansea’s first home match against Liverpool took place more than 22
years later, on 25th September, 1954 in a match played in front of 25,836 in
the Second Division of the Football League. Swansea won 3.2
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5. 3
Swansea Versus Liverpool
Swansea have never won away at Liverpool in the league. Their first league
defeat at Anfield came on 17th March, 1956. The match finished 4.1 with
one of Liverpool’s goals being scored by legendary Scottish striker Billy
Liddell.
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7. 5
Swansea Versus Liverpool
One of the most exciting matches between these two teams came on 3rd
October, 1959 in a Second Division match as home side Swansea Town beat
Liverpool 5.4. It is the highest aggregate score in matches between them
and the only time that Swansea have scored five against Liverpool.
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8. 6
Swansea Versus Liverpool
Liverpool first won in Swansea on 5th April, 1958. Jimmy Melia and Bobby
Murdoch scored in a 2.0 Second Division victory for The Reds
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9. 7
Swansea Versus Liverpool
Swansea’s first match with Liverpool as Swansea City (following Swansea’s
city status being awarded in 1969) came on 23rd January, 1971 in the fourth
round of the FA Cup at Anfield. Liverpool won 3.0 with goals from Chris
Lawler, John Toshack and Ian St John
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10. 8
Swansea Versus Liverpool
Swansea City first faced Liverpool at their new Liberty Stadium – and for
the first time at home in the Premier League - on 13th May, 2012, winning
1.0 with a goal from Danny Graham just four minutes from time
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11. 9
Swansea Versus Liverpool
Liverpool have scored four goals against Swansea in the league on no fewer
than seven different occasions, and five on two more – in 1961 and more
than fifty years later in 2013.
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12. 10
Swansea Versus Liverpool
The biggest victory for either side in this fixture came in an FA Cup third-
round replay on 9th January, 1990 at Anfield after the sides had drawn 0.0
in Swansea three days earlier. Liverpool won the replay 8.0 with Ian Rush
scoring a hat-trick and two more coming from John Barnes
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13. Article
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