Swansea 2 West Brom 1 - Report and pictures

But Fernando Llorente's goal four minutes from time completed a Swansea turn around after Jonny Evans had given the Baggies a first-half lead.

Jordan Ayew had equalised in the 72nd minute, and then Llorente bagged his 15th goal of the season. How the Baggies would love a striker as lethal as him.

Just like last season, Tony Pulis's team ended their campaign on a nine-game winless streak, and they have their wasteful striker Salomon Rondon to thank for that.

They finished tenth. It is the first top-half finish in the Premier League of Pulis's career but at the start of today, it was the worst realistic outcome.

The season finishes then with mixed emotions. For four months this team was electric, sweeping aside all those outside the top seven with aplomb, but now the squad looks dangerously thin and in need of additions.

Pulis made one change from the side that lost at Manchester City in midweek, bringing James Morrison in for out-of-form record signing Nacer Chadli.

Despite continually promising to play the youngsters, he didn't start any of his teenage prodigys on the final day of the season and only gave Jonathan Leko seconds at the end.

Swansea brought Kristoffer Nordfeldt in for Lucas Fabianski in goal, and Leroy Fer in for Ki Sung-Yeung in midfield.

But Pulis had packed that midfield with six players. Not only did he have a diamond four with Claudio Yacob holding, Jake Livermore and Darren Fletcher in front of him, and James Morrison in the number 10 role, but he also had Allan Nyom and Chris Brunt as wing-backs.

It took a while for Albion to get used to, and in the early stages a lack of options forced them to pass backwards in order to keep possession.

Kyle Naughton flashed a shot over Ben Foster's bar after a neat one-two with Gylfi Sigurdsson, but in the 20th minute, Fletcher fashioned the first big chance of the game when he slipped Salomon Rondon through with a well-timed pass.

The Venezuelan's first-time shot from a narrow angle was well held by Nordfeldt, but Albion's striker had more time than he realised and should have taken a touch.

But this season, when the strikers haven't been firing, the defenders have often been their to pick up the slack and Jonny Evans rose highest at the back post in the 33rd minute to nod the Baggies in front.

It was Albion's 16th goal of the season from a corner, and it sparked the game into life.

A few minutes later, Mike Dean had words with Allan Nyom and Martin Olsson after the pair put their heads together during a spell of handbags on the touchline, and shortly after that, both benches emptied following a series of hefty challenges.

Pulis was furious when Olsson refused to throw the ball back to Albion after Nyom had kicked it out when Leon Britton was down injured, and the Baggies should have capitalised from the ill feeling on the pitch.

With both teams flying in furiously, Morrison nipped past a wild Fernandez swing but his square ball to Rondon was cut out when he should have shot himself.

Albion were just as wasteful from a Fernandez mistake after half-time, when Rondon robbed the centre-back of the ball, and looked for all the world like he was going to score, before he dallied on the ball too long and allowed Leon Britton to get back and make a tackle.

Swansea went to Ibiza in the week to celebrate staying up, and the Argentinian certainly looked like he had a good time.

He was having a game to forget, and just two minutes later he somehow missed a header at the back post from three yards out after a Swansea corner was flicked right into his path.

The hosts were starting to crank it up, and they wanted a penalty just after the hour mark when Olsson went down under Craig Dawson's arm but Dean correctly waved away the protestations.

Fernando Llorente has scored a league-high seven headed goals this season, and the hosts were swinging in crosses from both sides, but Foster was on hand to punch clear.

However, there was nothing Albion's player of the season could do about Sigurdsson's free-kick in the 72nd minute.

The Icelander has combined with Llorente so many times this season, and he did so again, but this time the Spaniard headed the ball across goal to Ayew, who gleefully nodded in his first goal for the club.

Swansea senses blood, and four minutes before the end, Llorente completed the turnaround, sweeping home a simple finish from a simple cross. It came with the predatory instinct that Rondon simply lacks.

Much must be done this summer, but buying a striker should be top of the priorities.

Key Moments

30 Kyle Naughton pounces on a cross and his shot brushes Marc Wilson's hand on the way out, but referee Mike Dean waves away the penalty appeals.

33 GOAL ALBION - Evans rises highest at the back post and nods in Fletcher's deep corner, although Nordfeldt made it easy for him by coming into no-man's land.

71 GOAL SWANSEA - Sigurdsson's free-kick is headed back across goal by Llorente and nodded in by Jordan Ayew.

85 GOALSWANSEA - Llorente meets Naughton's cross to break Albion's hearts

Man of the Match

Fernando Llorente - Set up Swansea's first and scored their second.

FINAL POSITION

10th - with 45 points.

Teams

Swansea (4-3-3): Nordfeldt; Naughton, Mawson, Fernandez, Olsson; Fer (Ki 81), Britton (c) (Narsingh 66), Carroll; Sigurdsson, Llorente, Ayew. Unused subs: Tremmel, Amat, Cork, Knigsley, McBurnie.

Albion (3-5-1-1): Foster; Dawson, Evans, M Wilson (Leko 91); Nyom; Yacob, Livermore (McClean 79), Fletcher (c), Brunt; Morrison (Robson-Kanu 84); Rondon. Unused subs: Myhill, K Wilson, Field, Chadli, Leko.

Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)

Attendance: 20,889 (2,069 Albion)