Barclays Premier League:

Swansea City 2

Leicester City 0

Swansea City grabbed two crucial first half goals to secure a comfortable victory over the champions Leicester City.

A sweetly struck volley by centre back Alfie Mawson opened the scoring and it was followed up by a vicious strike by left back Martin Ollson.

Last August, Swansea City lost 2-1 against champions, but they gained sweet revenge at the Liberty Stadium with this impressive victory.

This was the Swans’s third win in four games, a perfect response after narrowly losing 2-1 against Manchester City last week.

The champions have lost five games on the trot, which is a record in the Premier League, and now they find themselves in a relegation dogfight and maybe Claudio Ranieri’s reign is under threat. If the worse happened Leicester City would be the first team in the Premiership to win it one season and get relegated the next.

The Swans came into this clash without the services of Ki Sung-Yeung and Jefferson Montero with injury, while Leon Britton was also missing with a recurring calf problem.

Leicester striker Islam Slimani has recovered from a groin injury, but Ranieri left him on the bench.

The hosts had an early penalty appeal turned down, midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson shot from just outside the box and the Foxes’ captain Wes Morgan blocked the goal bound effort inside the box.

Minutes later and the unlucky Nathan Dyer was helped off the pitch with an achilles injury and was replaced by Wayne Routledge.

The visitors were sitting deep early on and allowing the Swans possession, but looked extremely quick on the counter.

Leroy Fer picked up the first yellow card of the afternoon in the 26th minute, the midfielder putting a bone crunching tackle on Jamie Vardy, and completely wiping out the England striker.

Sigurdsson’s dangerous free-kick from the right was desperately headed for a corner by Danny Drinkwater inside the box, the closest the Swans came to finding the target in the first quarter.

The Swans came close in the 33rd minute, Olsson’s cross was flicked on by Sigurdsson and Routledge struck a stinging right foot volley that Kasper Schmeichel saved superbly diving down to his left.

In the 36th minute Robert Huth was yellow carded for a two-footed tackle on Tom Carroll, from the resulting free kick the Swans broke the deadlock. Sigurdsson’s free kick was half cleared to Federico Fernandez who headed straight across the box for Mawson who sweetly struck a volley crashing into the net.

Two minutes after the goal and Swans skipper Jack Cork received a yellow for fouling Riyard Mahrez.

On the stroke of half time the Swans doubled the lead with a fantastic build-up and finish by Olsson. Carroll played in Llorente who fed Sigurdsson, the latter threaded a brilliant angled first time pinpoint ball to the left back who raced clear of the Foxes defence and confidently buried his shot for his first goal for the club.

Paul Clement’s Swansea outfit were good value for their two-goal cushion at the break, and Ranieri knew his side had a lot of work to get back into the game.

At the start of the second half Leicester made a double substitution bringing on Islam Slimani and Ben Chilwell for Marc Albrighton and Christian Fuchs respectively.

The Foxes came out with more conviction and Demarai Gray ghosted past Kyle Naughton on the left, but the left midfielder’s cross-shot was comfortably gathered by Fabianski.

The hosts broke on the counter and Sigurdsson’s curling shot from the edge of the area brought out a good save by Schmeichel.

In the 56th minute Drinkwater was issued a yellow card for a late challenge on former Spain striker Llorente.

In the 63rd minute the visitors opened up a decent scoring opportunity, Vardy released Silmani and his shot was well stopped by Fabianski.

Jordan Ayew came on in the 72nd minute with a straight swap for striker Llorente, Ayew was making his Swans’ debut following his transfer from Aston Villa in January.

In the 89th minute substitute Routledge was taken off for Luciano Narsingh.

For the remainder the Swans closed out the game comfortably for a thoroughly deserved three points against the champions.

At the post match press conference Swansea City head coach Paul Clement said: “I’m very pleased with the afternoon’s work, the goal just before half time was so important for us, it gave us confidence for the second half.

"I’m delighted with the result but there is a long way to go, but I’m really happy with the overall performance by my players it was extremely professional.”

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri said: "Really disappointed with the final outcome. There first shot they scored, and their second shot they got another.

"We created plenty of scoring chances in the second half, but we didn’t take them.”

Swansea City: Lukasz Fabianski, Alfie Mawson, Leroy Fer, Fernando Llorente (72, Jordan Ayew), Nathan Dyer (6, Wayne Routledge - 89 Luciano Narsingh), Martin Olsson, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Jack Cork (Captain), Kyle Naughton, Federico Fernandez, Tom Carroll. Substitutes not used: Kristoffer Nordfeldt, Jordi Amat, Angel Rangel, Stephen Kingsley.

Head Coach: Paul Clement.

Leicester City: Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Drinkwater, Wes Morgan (Captain), Robert Huth, Jamie Vardy, Marc Albrighton (45, Islam Slimani), Danny Simpson (70 Daniel Amartey), Demarai Gray, Wilfred Ndidi, Riyard Mahrez, Christian Fuchs (45, Ben Chilwell). Substitutes not used: Ron-Robert Zieler, Ahmed Musa, Andy King,  Islam Slimani, Shinji Okazaki.

Manager: Claudio Ranieri.

Referee: Mr. J. Moss.

Assistant Referees: Mr. E, Smart, Mr. A. Garratt.

Fourth Official: Mr. R. East.

Attendance: 20,391.