Bradley still looking for first win as Swans boss after Stoke defeat

Stoke striker Wilfried Bony ended his drought with a brace to haunt former club Swansea in a 3-1 victory.

The 27-year-old had gone without a goal since Boxing Day, 310 days ago, but the Manchester City loanee kickstarted his career in Staffordshire with his team's first and third goals.

To compound the Swans' misery, both were laid on by Joe Allen, who was heavily linked with a return to South Wales before Stoke swooped this summer, and the Potters' other strike, which arrived after Wayne Routledge's equaliser, came via an Alfie Mawson own goal.

It leaves American boss Bob Bradley with one point from his opening three top-flight fixtures, while Stoke were able to record a third straight triumph after a stuttering start themselves.

With three minutes of the match gone, Xherdan Shaqiri's near-post corner was nodded into the air by Neil Taylor and 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.

Bradley would have settled for a period of stabilisation, instead he saw an equaliser from the visitors' first attack. The recalled Fernando Llorente held the ball up for Gylfi Sigurdsson and he lifted a cross into Routledge, who managed to outmanoeuvre Phil Bardsley to nod in an eighth-minute leveller.

A breathless start did not peter out and the frame of Fabianski's goal was struck three times before the break.

In the second half, the home side re-took the lead. Glenn Whelan's terrific pass was latched upon by substitute Ramadan Sobhi and he jinked beyond Angel Rangel before firing towards the far post, with Mawson's intervention only diverting it past Fabianski.

A third Stoke goal arrived 17 minutes from time as the Allen-and-Bony connection worked again. The Welsh international had the first bite of the cherry but fired into Fabianski and when the ball came back to him he flicked to Bony to head home.

Swansea had a late penalty shout turned down and Bob Bradley's side now sit 19th in the Premier League, already in relegation trouble.