Arsenal's defensive struggles continued over the weekend, blowing a one goal lead and losing to Swansea City in English Premier League (EPL) action on Sunday.

The Gunners' defense, who gave up three late goals against Anderlecht in their Tuesday UEFA Champions League game, was further exposed after wasting Alexis Sanchez's goal, who trickled Danny Welback's pass on the breakaway past Swans goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski in the 63rd minute to put Arsenal up 1-0. Sanchez scored his sixth goal in the Gunners' last four EPL games, finishing the day in third place on the league's scorers table with eight goals for the year.

Swansea City's Gylfi Sigurdsson tied the match 1-1, in the 75th minute, blasting a beautiful 25-yard free kick that caught Wojciech Szczesny off-guard. Swansea City forward Bafétimbi Gomis sealed the match for the Swans heading Ecudorian winger Jefferson Montero's cross for the 2-1 victory over Arsenal.

Swansea City's win puts them in fifth place in the EPL standings while dropping the Gunners to sixth going into the international break.

"Football is down to performances," said Arsene Wenger. "We are here to produce performances and didn't do that right until the end of the game."

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Tottenham Hotspur also had a difficult weekend going down to a scrappy Stoke City with midfielder Bojan Krkic setting the tone early with a goal in the sixth minute of the game after taking a Spurs turnover and blowing by Tottenham's porous defense to blast a shot past Hugo Lloris from outside the box to go up 1-0. Jonathan Walters would also be the beneficiary of another Tottenham turnover, getting past the defense and capitalizing on Mame Biram Diouf pass in the box to put Stoke City up 2-0.

Tottenham's Nacer Chadli hammered Danny Rose's cross past Stoke City keeper Asmir Begovic in the 77th minute but it was not enough, with the Spurs falling 2-1 to the Potters.

"I was really pleased with the manner of the performance," said Stoke City coach Mark Hughes. "We had a game plan and executed it to the letter. We were always a threat, we had a good shape about us, when we had the ball we broke with pace and precision and scored two goals as a consequence."

Results from the rest of Sunday's EPL games:
Sunderland 1 - Everton 1
West Bromwich Albion 0 - Newcastle United 2

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