Wilfried Bony ends goal drought with Stoke brace

Stoke 3 Swansea City 1: Stoke striker Wilfried Bony ended his 310-day goal drought with a brace to haunt old club Swansea.

After just three minutes, Xherdan Shaqiri’s near-post corner was nodded into the air by Neil Taylor and Joe Allen reached it, knocking into the six-yard box with his left foot to leave Bony the simplest of finishes to get off the mark.

US boss Bob Bradley saw an equaliser from his team’s first attack. The recalled Fernando Llorente held the ball up for Gylfi Sigurdsson and he lifted a cross into Wayne Routledge, who managed to outmanoeuvre Phil Bardsley to nod in an eighth-minute leveller.