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Robins v Swans
It’s Bristol City next and a relatively short trip over the Severn Bridge.
An early kick-off at midday for the second successive match because of crowd trouble in previous fixtures. All 1900 tickets sold with no further allocation allowed.
Team news, Manning and Paterson back in the squad after injury.
Allen has had a setback in his recovery from a hamstring injury and is ruled out playing for us until after the World Cup.
They are not new injuries but Bristol’s centre-back pair Naismith (been out almost a month - calf injury) and Kalas (been out long term with a knee injury) are still missing.
We meet up again with an ex-loan player from our relegation season in 2018, midfielder Andy King, who is now player-coach with the Robins. He came off the subs-bench in their last match, a 2-0 defeat at Reading. Only days before Bristol had a good away win, 0-2 at West Brom, who themselves had won 0-2 at Reading recently.
The Championship is wide open this season, lose a few and you’re down the bottom, win a few and you’re up the top.
Come on the Swans, no “after the Lord Mayors Show” please!
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Our leading scorer last season, Joel Piroe, is also missing, serving the last match of his three match ban.
RM says:
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rus...ight-mentality
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Swans team are unchanged, but Paterson and Manning return as subs:
Swans: Benda, Wood, Darling, Cabango, Latibeaudiere, Fulton, Grimes (c), Sorinola, Cundle, Cooper, Obafemi.
Subs: Fisher, Manning, Ntcham, Paterson, Cullen, Oko-Flex, Naughton.
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...........and the opposition line-up
Bristol C: Max O'Leary, Jay Dasilva, Rob Atkinson, Matty James (c), Alex Scott, Antoine Semenyo, Tommy Conway, Mark Sykes, George Tanner, Nahki Wells, Zak Vyner.
Subs: Dan Bentley, Joe Williams, Chris Martin, Andy King, Cameron Pring, Sam Bell, Dylan Kadji.
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FT: 1-1
Out of sorts today as we continue to get dispossessed over passing out at the back.
Bristol blocked our flanks, relied on counter attacks and high pressed us with effect.
Down 0-1 at half-time, could have been more. Manning came on for Wood start of second half, but it wasn’t until a further four substitutions, three on on 70’ were made that the game turned.
A beautiful strike by sub Ntcham on 76’ saved the day, but we cannot afford to have too many off-days like this.
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Bristol City should have sown the match up first half, cut through us like butter, defence poor, Benda saved us.
We recovered second half and could have won it in the end.
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Our defending was weak yesterday, we looked wide open, old habits returning.
I can’t understand why Martin, as a top defender in his time, can’t sort it out.
We were lucky not to concede more goals first-half.
The subs second-half gave us fresh impetus and we could have won it in the end.
