Barnsley v Swansea

[jackaway]

It’s a Saturday night kick off next match for the Sky cameras. We are in Yorkshire for the resumption of League fixtures after the FA Cup break. Barnsley are the opposition, a team who we recently beat 2-0 at the Liberty.
Oakwell is not an easy place to go to, it’s a long trip, we drew our last game there when they were bottom of the table. This time around they are a stronger team and have a good home record.
Our squad is much depleted with loanees Viktor Gyokeres, Morgan Gibbs-White, and Kasey Palmer all recalled by their parent clubs.
Ryan Bennet, Joel Latibeaudiere, Steven Benda and Brandon Cooper are injured. Declan John and Jack Evans are transferred out. Quite a list. The next two weeks of the transfer window will be crucial in getting players in to reinforce the squad.
With the next three league matches all away from home this period in our season will be a strong test for the players.

[Estoban]

An evening kick off away at Barnsley tonight, then away again at Blackburn next Tuesday, two tough long distance matches.
Whoever scheduled these fixtures gave no thought to the mileage involved. The players won’t get home until Sunday morning then have to leave on Monday to overnight for Tuesday’s match. What happened to the one home one away schedule?
Barnsley have improved this season under Valerian Ismael, having won five out of the last six matches before losing 1-0 at leaders Norwich last time out. They have two Welsh players, left-back Ben Williams who is out injured long term and midfielder Isaac Christie-Davies.
Swans have a central defence problem, Bennett and Latibeaudiere have been out injured last few games and now Brandon Cooper, recalled from loan at Newport, injured his ankle in training this week.
Back-up goalie Steven Benda is out long term after an operation on an ankle injury and we’ve had to sign another goalkeeper yesterday, Ben Hamer from Huddersfield Town.

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Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Kyle Naughton, Ben Cabango, Marc Guehi; Connor Roberts, Korey Smith, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Jamal Lowe, Andre Ayew.

Substitutes: Ben Hamer, Ryan Manning, Wayne Routledge, Liam Cullen, Yan Dhanda, Joel Latibeaudiere, George Byers, Oli Cooper, Jordon Garrick.

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Barnsley: Jack Walton, Callum Styles, Mads Andersen, Callum Brittain, Herbie Kane, Cauley Woodrow, Conor Chaplin, Michael Sollbauer, Alex Mowatt (captain), Victor Adeboyejo, Michal Helik.

Substitutes: Carlton Morris, Luke Thomas, Patrick Schmidt, Tom Sibbick, Romal Palmer, Clarke Oduor, Dominik Frieser, Jasper Moon, Ben Collins.

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HT: 0-1 Cabango 46’ against the run of play with Barnsley’s high press hard to play against

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0-2 Lowe 55’

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Ft 0-2

[Estoban]

Here’s the match report:
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-barnsley-0-swansea-city-2

[Estoban]

First goal Cabango a lovely looping header from Roberts long throw in.
Second goal breakaway from Lowe after two of their defenders got in each other’s way, for his seventh goal in seven games.
Happy Weekend!

[Acido]

Hey lads, I've no problem with Swanny, I prefer them instead of Cardiff put it that way lol.
So Jack & co, are you all confident for promotion this season ?. :p

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Match highlights-
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/extended-highlights-barnsley-v-swansea-city-0

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Hi Acido.
It was a tough match last night under poor conditions. Barnsley are a good side this season under your new manager and the high press works well for you. We adapted our game to your style and the state of the pitch, we don’t normally play heading tennis.
You had your chances though but unlucky this time.
Our chances of promotion? As good as anybody’s I suppose. With our USA owners reluctant to invest any money, we are relying on loanees to make up the squad. We’ve just lost three of them, recalled to their parent clubs, so our squad is a bit thin on the ground, therefore fingers crossed on the injury front. The Championship is a tough league to get out of and any team can beat the other on the day, so to predict if we can get promotion is a bit early with only half way gone. We are solid defensively this season which is a big thing, another is consistency.
I was up your place last season when we drew there. We walked into town from the ground to the local Wetherspoons. When we returned to watch the match the bridge over the railway line on the way to the ground was blocked off, it frightened the life out of us as we thought we’d miss the match. After asking someone we had to walk to the train station to get over to the other side.
Good luck for the rest of the season.

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....... and just the highlights -
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/highlights-barnsley-v-swansea-city-0

[Acido]

Cheers Jack.
Yes we play that 'gagenpress' type football, which has caught a lot of teams out this season. It's not always effective though and credit to Cooper, he got your team to react well to it in both games against us.
Naarich look good this season, and Brentford impressed me when they win at ours. I can't say that I'm too impressed though with Bournemouth.