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SWANSEA CITY are being warned they are facing the new Alan Shearer in their Good Friday showdown with Newcastle at the Liberty Stadium.

Toon manager Alan Pardew has likened the impact Papiss Cisse is having on the Newcastle Class of 2012 to that of legendary No.9 Shearer.

The Senegal international has scored twice in the 2-0 win over Liverpool at the weekend and has rattled in seven goals in his first seven Premier League matches.

He arrived on Tyneside with a fantastic record from his time in the Bundesliga after hitting 37 in 65 games for SC Freiburg.

The Swans will have on-loan Tottenham star Steven Caulker back to bolster their defence after leaking three goals to Spurs on Sunday.

But Pardew claims they will have their work cut out dealing with his £9.5m hitman, saying: “You could have blinked and thought it was Alan Shearer – he put in that sort of performance against Liverpool.

“I could not pay him a higher tribute than that. Shearer would have been purring about him.

“He has been tremendous in everything he has done. His first goal saw him take the defender short, stall and then go again before scoring – that is clever play.

“His second goal could have been rushed, but he is supremely confident.

“Cisse was terrific, not just for his two goals, but for his hold-up play and everything else.”

Pardew believes his side have nothing to fear in the final seven games of the season as Newcastle seek to cement European football for next season.

The first of those games is the Liberty Stadium clash with the Swans and Pardew continued: “We’ve hit form at the right time. We were up against a Liverpool side who had their big guns back.

“I know they’ve lost games they shouldn’t have, but they had Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez, Craig Bellamy and Andy Carroll on the pitch – and we still beat them.

“We have to continue creating pressure like that on the other teams we face. We are doing that and controlling games.”

Brendan Rodgers’ Swans go into Friday’s match pretty much having already guaranteed Premier League football for Wales once more next season.

They still require one more point, however, to reach the 40-points tally normally associated with avoiding the drop.

After Newcastle, Swansea go to London to take on Mark Hughes’ Queens Park Rangers next Wednesday, before then tangling with Blackburn at the Liberty.

Next up will be Bolton (away) and Wolves (home), meaning the Swans have four back-to-back matches against teams fighting for their Premier League existence.

Their final two matches of the historic campaign are away to Manchester United on May 6, followed by Liverpool in Wales on the last day of the campaign.