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Paul Clement

Paul Clement
Photography by Philip Haynes
Author
Ali Tweedale
Published on
February 1 2022

Premier League, January 21 2017

Liverpool 2Swansea 3

Firmino (55, 69)

Llorente (48, 52), Sigurdsson (74)

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
LiverpoolSwansea
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Liverpool4-3-3
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