Swansea: January signing Gylfi Sigurdsson helped Swansea beat struggling Blackburn 3-0 on Saturday to end a four-game losing run in the Premier League in emphatic style.
Sigurdsson opened the scoring with a curling left-foot shot in the 37th minute for his seventh goal in 14 league games since joining the Welsh club on loan from Hoffenheim. Nathan Dyer made it 2-0 just before halftime after being set up by Danny Graham and the hosts rounded off a comfortable win in the 63rd when the ball came off Blackburn defender Scott Dann and went over the line after Sigurdsson hit the post.
The loss leaves Blackburn in deep trouble at second bottom in the standings, three points from safety with four games remaining.
In another game, Graham Dorrans' long-range strike in the first-half goal gave West Bromwich Albion a 1-0 win over Queens Park Rangers to leave the visitors mired in a battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League. Dorrans netted the winner from 30 yards in the 22nd minute, and Bobby Zamora wasted a number of opportunities to level for QPR.
QPR continued their poor away form under Mark Hughes, having picked up just two points in 11 games on the road. West Brom, meanwhile, are firmly lodged in mid-table and is all but assured of a third straight season of topflight football.
Wolverhampton Wanderers stopped a run of seven straight defeats with a 0-0 draw against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on Saturday but remain bottom of the Premier League table, eight points from safety. Wolves beat Sunderland 2-1 at Molineux in December but were unable to complete the double over the Black Cats, though the result represents the first clean sheet for the visitors in 31 games.
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