Arsenal 3-2 Swansea City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 15 October 2016

Result

Arsenal 3-2 Swansea City

Premier League · Saturday 15 October 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Arsenal · Swansea City · Premier League predictions

Arsenal 3-2 Swansea City: match report

Arsenal beat Swansea City 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 October 2016. It was 2-1 at half-time.

T. Walcott opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Arsenal's goals came from T. Walcott (26'), T. Walcott (33') and M. Özil (57'). Swansea City scored through Dejan Joksimovic (38') and Borja Bastón (66').

Discipline: Arsenal received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Swansea City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Arsenal were 3rd on 16 points from 7 and Swansea City 17th on 4 points from 7. Arsenal went on to finish that season 5th with 75 points, and Swansea City 15th with 41.

Arsenal lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Swansea City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Mesut Özil of Arsenal (8.8), ahead of Alexis Sánchez (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Arsenal wins, 0 draws and 5 for Swansea City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Goal · T. WalcottArsenal · 1-0
  • 33'Goal · T. WalcottArsenal · 2-0
  • 38'Goal · Dejan JoksimovicSwansea City · 2-1
  • 48'Yellow card · Neil TaylorSwansea City
  • 57'Goal · M. ÖzilArsenal · 3-1
  • 66'Goal · Borja BastónSwansea City · 3-2
  • 70'Red card · Granit XhakaArsenal

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Arsenal 5, draws 0, Swansea City 5.

Team news

Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)

Petr Čech, Héctor Bellerín, Shkodran Mustafi, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Santi Cazorla, Granit Xhaka, Theo Walcott, Mesut Özil, Alex Iwobi, Alexis Sánchez

Swansea City line-up (4-4-1-1)

Lukasz Fabianski, Kyle Naughton, Federico Fernández, Jordi Amat, Neil Taylor, Modou Barrow, Leon Britton, Jack Cork, Wayne Routledge, Leroy Fer, Gylfi Sigurdsson