Spanglish works for Swans

Swansea City 2 Leicester City 0

Swansea beat Leicester 2-0 on Saturday evening to end a run of five Premier League games without a win and move them back into the top six after their flying start to the season.

Wilfried Bony’s double got Swansea firing up front again but manager Garry Monk admitted after Leicester were brushed aside at the Liberty Stadium that he was just as satisfied with what was only a second clean sheet in six league games.

And centre-back Williams puts that down to a growing understanding with Argentina defender Federico Fernandez and their unusual method of communication on the pitch.

Williams learned Spanish with Swansea having signed so many Spaniards during his time at the club and Fernandez’s English is improving all the time following his £8 million summer switch from Napoli.

“It’s difficult when you’re in the heat of the moment to change,” Williams said.

“For me to speak in Spanish or for him to listen in English is difficult.

“The key is to talk off the field and we have a lot of time in training to iron out things, especially in our position where you have to know what the other guy is going to be doing.

“So on the field we speak Spanglish! Sometimes he says whole sentences to me and I say ’yeah, yeah’ when I think ‘I don’t know what he’s said’.

“He could be saying anything to me but I think he understands a lot. You can speak English to him but I try to speak Spanish as much as I can to help him.”

Leicester’s third defeat in four games left them only two points above the relegation zone and their last win, the 5-3 humbling of Manchester United on September 21, already seems a long time ago.

Pearson blamed “unforced errors” as the reason behind his side’s latest loss.

“We didn’t manage the ball well enough and that made for a frustrating afternoon for the players,” Pearson said.

“It was a disappointing performance.”

SWANSEA: Fabianski, Rangel, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor, Ki, Shelvey, Routledge (Dyer 83), Sigurdsson (Carroll 58), Montero, Bony (Gomis 83).

LEICESTER: Schmeichel, De Laet, Morgan, Moore, Konchesky, Hammond (King 68), Drinkwater (Cambiasso 68), Mahrez, Nugent, Vardy (James 67), Ulloa.

Referee: Mike Jones.