Connor Wickham suffers a horror injury for Crystal Palace at Swansea

Game on. Swansea still had a one goal lead, but Crystal Palace could still smell blood.

Bradley took over Swansea City during the global break at the start of October, but heading in to Thanksgiving weekend, he was still searching for his first Premier League win.

Palace looked dead and buried when Gylfi Sigurdsson’s stunning free-kick strike and a Leroy Fer double midway through the second half overturned Wilfried Zaha’s 19th-minute effort. “For this team to win like that, was incredibly important, not only for me but for the players, too”, Bradley told British media.

Swansea City assistant boss Alan Curtis says the club need to investigate their “calamitous” defending after their 5-4 victory against Crystal Palace.

“He (Bradley) has seen me play in other teams and knows I can do a lot of things”. The second half saw an improvement from the hosts as they started to settle into the game and dominated most of the possession, as Palace offered very little. Zaha’s cross from out wide was met 15 yards out by Jack Cork’s desperate, stretching defensive header which sent the ball up into the night sky and down into the net. 3-3. A great win at 8 placed Watford, where Leicester lost last week, was just what needed to bounce back from a poor performance in their defeat to Bournemouth last time out. The Palace defenders all looked like they’d seen a ghost when Swansea’s fifth goal found the back of the net.

In the end, they got there.

It started so well for Palace as Swansea’s aerial struggles were exposed against the powerful Christian Benteke. The team are sitting in the relegation zone at 19th place, but Llorente believes that this win will give them the confidence to climb out. We’ve got to see it out. It was a insane finish to a game which both teams’ defending for set-pieces was lamentable.

“At 4-3, I’m afraid that’s not good enough”.

Spanish striker Llorente came off the bench against Crystal Palace to score twice in injury time and secure an incredible 5-4 home win to pile the pressure on under-fire Eagles boss Alan Pardew.

Swansea climbed off the bottom of the 20-team standings and Palace is two points ahead in 16th. “But the players still show up every day with a really good mentality”.