Video Swansea 4 - 4 Wolves

Terry Connor’s relegated side came back from 3-0 and 4-1 down to somehow draw in a real see-saw thriller at Liberty Stadium.

Wolves trailed to Andrea Orlandi’s header after just 22 seconds – the quickest goal in the Premier League this season – before Joe Allen (4) and Nathan Dyer (15) made it 3-0.


Steven Fletcher’s 28th-minute header reduced the arrears but Danny Graham restored Swansea’s three-goal cushion three minutes later.

But after that, Wolves were the better side and pulled it back through Matt Jarvis (34 and 69) and Dave Edwards (54).

It was the first time Wolves had scored four away from home in the Premier League and the first time they had scored that many since the 4-0 win over Blackpool in February 2011 and for only the third time in the rebranded top flight.

Connor made two changes to the side beaten 2-0 by Manchester City last Sunday.

Christophe Berra and Kevin Doyle replaced Sebastien Bassong, who injured a hamstring last weekend, and David Davis, who dropped out of the 18 after picking up an eye injury in training.

Wolves were still effectively warming up when they conceded the first goal in a first half of woeful defending by both teams.

Orlandi rose highest to send a firm header beyond returning keeper Dorus De Vries into the roof of the net from inside the six-yard box from Scott Sinclair’s left-wing cross.

Swansea doubled their lead when Allen raced cleat onto Gylfi Sigurdsson’s simple pass and saw his deflected shot off Richard Stearman wrongfoot De Vries.

Dyer was probably the smallest man on the pitch but he found it easy to net a far-post header after Orlandi did brilliantly to beat Kevin Foley then cross from the left.

Wolves looked dead and buried, but to their credit, they hit back and Fletcher reduced the arrears with a towering header into the top corner from Doyle’s cross to end his nine-match goal drought with his 11th of the season.

Graham restored Swansea’s three-goal cushion with a drilled, clinical finish from six yards after being left unmarked before he was spotted by Dyer’s lob from the right side of the box, Stearman and the out-of-position Foley unable to close him down quickly enough.

But then the comeback started in earnest by the plucky visitors.

Jarvis cut inside from the left before curling home a sweet shot into the bottom corner after Doyle’s right-wing cross was too high for Fletcher in the box.

The impressive Michael Kightly drilled a half volley inches wide after Jarvis’s corner was cleared.

Wolves were suddenly in the ascendancy and they should have grabbed their third when Karl Henry threaded Fletcher through on the left hand side of the box.

But the top scorer rushed his effort and blazed across the face of goal from an excellent position.

The visitors remained on the attack however and seconds later, Stephen Ward was next to try his luck, forcing keeper Michel Vorm to acrobatically punch clear with an angled shot after bursting forward.

Wolves still weren’t done and they had claims for a penalty after Doyle was brought down by Vorm after latching onto Garry Monk’s awful backpass.

Instead of going down, Doyle stayed on his feet and after being driven wide by the challenge, saw his left-foot shot from a tight angle blocked.

Swansea started the second half better and Gylfi Sigurdsson fired against the base of the post then forced De Vries into a flying save to his left with another shot.

But it was Wolves, who were pretty much on top from the half hour mark onwards, who got the next goal to send their long-suffering fans into raptures.

Edwards finished off a superb move started by Karl Henry and involving Fletcher and Kightly, who put the midfielder through with a first-time pass.

Fletcher should have equalised on the hour with an unmarked header that he instead flicked across the face of goal from Foley’s cross.

But the Scot set up Jarvis for his second, the winger tapping home his seventh goal of the season after Edwards found Fletcher unmarked on the left to send over an inviting, first-time cross that just needed the finishing touch.

Wolves remained the more likely scorers and Kightly should have scored an unlikely winner in the 80th minute only to blaze over with only Vorm to beat after Doyle put him in on goal in space on the angle.

Connor’s side couldn’t get their first win under the beleaguered manager, but they went mightily close from a seemingly impossible position and earned their warm ovation from the 1,000 travelling fans at the final whistle.