This is going to be short. I've been trying to come up with at least one interesting nugget about the match, but it's not really happening.
Swans have been more than formidable at home all season long. This has helped them out quite a bit because they've been total junk on the road. Will home form be enough to keep them up in the EPL? I guess we shall see.
They pretty much dominated the first half, playing their particular brand of possession football. They were working QPR pretty hard, but nothing was really coming of it. Not even a half chance for either side.
However Swansea got the first half's only goal in the 14th minute. Danny Graham took a ball near the top of the area, put two defenders between himself and the 'keeper, and squirted it into the net to give the Swans a 1-0 lead. This was not without controversy though, as the ball pretty clearly struck Graham's arm as he brought it down. The referee deemed it unintentional and let the goal stand. Swansea took the 1-0 lead into half time.
Neil Warnock must have fired up his troops in the locker room, because they really took the fight to Swansea in the second half, and they needed to. Coming into this match, QPR had only taken 1 point out of the last possible 15. They got the equalizer in the 58th minute as Jamie Mackie chested down a ball and volleyed it past the Swansea keeper to make it 1-1.
The controversy didn't end in the first half though. Late in the match Graham was brought down in the area by QPR's Armand Traore. However the referee was not interested and waved play on, Perhaps it was a bit of a make up call for the hand ball, because it appeared, to me anyway, to be a pretty clear penalty.
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