Swansea City 0-4 Arsenal: Gunners move up to third as Clement loses first league game in charge

Olivier Giroud opened the scoring for the visitors before own goals from Jack Cork and Kyle Naughton and an Alexis Sanchez strike sealed the victory.

Arsenal put pressure on their fellow Premier League title challengers as they secured a 4-0 victory against Swansea City on Saturday.

Paul Clement, who took over as Swans head coach on January 3, said Arsenal were appropriate opponents for his first league game in charge given the scouting report he had compiled on them while at Bayern Munich, but all his careful planning was undone by ill-fortune and dismal defending.

Swansea had matched the Gunners' intensity early on but a loss of concentration allowed Giroud to turn in from close range after the returning Mesut Ozil's header was not cleared.

Alex Iwobi killed any hopes of a comeback from the league's bottom club after the break, the Nigeria winger forcing own goals in the space of 13 minutes from Jack Cork and Kyle Naughton.

Sanchez capitalised on some more poor defending to add a fourth for Arsenal that moves them above Liverpool - who face Manchester United on Sunday - and into third in the table, five points behind leaders Chelsea.

Swansea started brightly and came closest to breaking the initial deadlock when Naughton forced Petr Cech to tip a low strike around his right-hand post.
Sanchez tested Lukasz Fabianski with a low strike but that was Arsenal's only effort on goal in a sluggish opening half-hour.