Swansea are being held to a 1-1 draw by Aston Villa at half time at home in the Premier League.

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Wayne Routledge could have pulled the Swans ahead as early as the fourth minute when he latched onto a bouncing ball behind the Villa defence, but goalkeeper Brad Guzan made a good recovery.

However, Guzan failed to keep out the Swansea midfielder five minutes later when he ran behind Villa defender Ciaran Clark to collect a through-ball from Pablo Hernandez and shoot past him.

Michu almost made it 2-0 to Swansea from the restart when he intercepted an inaccurate pass on the edge of the box, but was denied by the frame of the visitors' goal.

Moments later Danny Graham was released by Routledge deep inside the Villa penalty box, but failed to his shot on target.

Michael Laudrup's side continued to dominate proceedings at the Liberty Stadium, with Angel Rangel firing wide and Michu hitting the post in the 25th minute.

Then much against the run of play, Villa equalised on the stroke of half time when Andreas Weiman fired home from close range.