Swansea v Southampton

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Swansea v Southampton Saturday 20 January 12:30
Our last defeat was a heavy one, five matches ago, since then we’ve won two and drawn two. The team that inflicted that defeat was Southampton and here they are again, next match. A normal fixture list usually spaces out home and away matches against the same team, but not this time for some unknown reason.
We are at home at least, not that it makes any difference, as we have a poor home record.
It’s the return of that man Russell Martin, who couldn’t leave quickly enough last summer after a fall out with the owners. He was highly thought of by some fans, not others though. His football ethos didn’t work with us but has been a resounding success with better players at Southampton.
The Saints are on a 20 match unbeaten run and it will be a daunting task to get anything from this match. Pride is at stake for our players and we’ll find out soon enough whether they’ve got any.
Luke Williams has a week to prepare his players and sort out our kamikaze defending, good luck with that then.

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Swansea:
Carl Rushworth, Jay Fulton, Harry Darling, Matt Grimes (c), Jamal Lowe, Jamie Paterson, Josh Tymon, Liam Cullen, Nathan Wood, Harrison Ashby, Bashir Humphreys
Subs: Andy Fisher, Kristian Pedersen, Joe Allen, Jerry Yates, Nathanael Ogbeta, Yannick Bolasie, Charlie Patino, Kyle Naughton, Ollie Cooper

Southampton:
Gavin Bazunu, Kyle Walker-Peters, Ryan Manning, Flynn Downes, Adam Armstrong (c), Che Adams, Will Smallbone, Stuart Armstrong, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Ryan Fraser, Jan Bednarek
Subs: Joe Lumley, Jack Stephens, Mason Holgate, Sekou Mara, Joe Rothwell, Carlos Alcaraz, Shea Charles, Sam Amo-Ameyaw, Tyler Dibling

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Swansea 1 (Paterson 40’) - Southampton 3 (Adams 6’, Smallbone 20’, Downes 45’)
Men against boys as we were overrun for two thirds of the match. Could have been a lot more goals conceded as we stood off and failed to compete, timid and embarrassingly inept.
After several substitutions on both sides, should have been much earlier from Swansea, and suddenly the match turned and we had three good chances. We squandered them all by snatching at them, two hit the post, such a shame as we could have rescued an unlikely draw.
A lot of work needed on the training field and reinforcements incoming to make a decent team out of this lot.

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Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rep...outhampton-3-0

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Match highlights

https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...hip-highlights

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Luke Williams after match reaction

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=axnGJyiA0hE

[Big Bob]

Sounds like Williams defence is the same as it was at Notts County. I bet he's got no plan B. Surprising he hasn't described Southampton as incredible, incredible incredible. Everyone's incredible.

[Estoban]

Match highlights

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLcHAe...ature=youtu.be

[Estoban]

We were wide open, Saints just passed right through us. If the team that finished the match had started the match the result would have been different. The subs made the difference, all the attacking players were on the bench. We reverted to a back four, strengthened midfield and had Southampton on the ropes at the end but too little too late. I thought he would have changed things earlier at half time.
Anyway the last part was encouraging. We have a horrible schedule of tough matches coming up, I hope LW and the players are ready for it.

[Iolo]

Their third goal was blatantly off-side, called it as it happened but inept linesman wasn’t up with play and didn’t give it.
Great second-half comeback and on another day we could have rescued a draw.
Subs should have come on far sooner, hope lesson is learnt.