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Garry Monk

Garry Monk
Photography by Shamil Tanna
Author
Tony Hodson
Published on
January 26 2022

Premier League, May 11 2015

Arsenal 0Swansea 1

Gomis (85)

Garry Monk spent only one full season as Swansea City’s manager, but during their promising 2014/15 he oversaw victories both home and away in the Premier League against Arsenal and Manchester United, then managed by the decorated Arsène Wenger and Louis van Gaal. Perhaps the most impressive of those victories came at Arsenal, where Bafetimbi Gomis scored their winning goal.

It was that victory that gave Swansea, and Monk, four from four against their talented opponents. On that occasion they’d also started without a recognised striker – Gomis appeared from the substitute’s bench, and found the finishing touch that a team featuring Alexis Sánchez, Aaron Ramsey, Santi Cazorla and more could not. Speaking exclusively to The Coaches’ Voice, Monk revisits the approach they used that brought them three points.

Starting line-ups
ArsenalSwansea
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Arsenal4-2-3-1
Swansea4-3-3
13David Ospina
1Lukasz Fabianski
39Héctor Bellerín
22Àngel Rangel
4Per Mertesacker
33Federico Fernández
6Laurent Koscielny
6Ashley Williams
18Nacho Monreal
3Neil Taylor
19Santi Cazorla
24Jack Cork
34Francis Coquelin
8Jonjo Shelvey
17Alexis Sánchez
4Ki Sung-yueng
16Aaron Ramsey
12Nathan Dyer
11Mesut Özil
20Jefferson Montero
12Olivier Giroud
23Gylfi Sigurdsson