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title: "Swansea City vs Sunderland: What we learnt"
canonical: "https://readsunderland.com/2016/01/14/swansea-city-vs-sunderland-learnt/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Chris Sparks"
section: "Articles"
published: "2016-01-14T17:26:45Z"
modified: "2016-01-14T17:26:45Z"
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# Swansea City vs Sunderland: What we learnt

Sunderland grabbed a vital three points in the relegation battle as they defeated Swansea City in South Wales to move within one point of their rivals thanks to a Jermain Defoe hat-trick.

The Black Cats took the lead inside the opening five minutes through the deadly Defoe after Adam Johnson and Fabio Borini combined following a poor goal kick from the [Swansea](https://readswansea.com/) goalkeeper. Gylfi Sigurdsson and Andre Ayew would give [Swansea](https://readswansea.com/)the lead at half-time despite having Kyle Naughton controversially sent-off.

Patrick Van Aanholt, who was impressive throughout, arrowed the ball into the top-right hand corner with the aid of a slight deflection straight after the break. From this point onwards the game was all Sunderland, with Jermain Defoe grabbing a further two goals to claim his hat-trick.

Here is what we learnt from the 4-2 victory in South Wales last night: