Swansea v Ipswich

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Swansea v Ipswich, Sat 8 Nov, 15:00
Coming up next we meet that other East Anglia side Ipswich.
Fresh down from the Premier League where they finished bottom but one with four wins last season, this season they will be looking to bounce straight back.
They are presently in 10th spot with 5 wins from 13 games and are the third highest scorers on 22 goals.
Their last away game was last Saturday, where they beat QPR 1-4 for their first away win in 5 matches.
Swans meanwhile are down in 17th place and are finding it hard to score and shoot themselves in the foot with slack defending. They dominate matches with plenty of possession but then freeze in the final third where it matters.
Each match Swansea fans hope it will change and it is coming to the stage where we have to start winning or we’ll end up in a relegation fight.
Who would have thought it beginning of the season when hopes were so high with all the supposed ‘quality’ signings. Well with the exception of a few the rest have been anything but quality.
We surely cannot go into the International break with another defeat, or can we?

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Three changes to the Swans line-up

Swans: Lawrence Vigouroux, Ben Cabango (c), Cameron Burgess, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Josh Key, Goncalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Josh Tymon, Melker Widell, Zeidane Inoussa, Zan Vipotnik
Subs: Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Malick Yalcouye, Jisung Eom, Liam Cullen, Manuel Benson, Kaelan Casey, Adam Idah, Ronald

Ipswich: Christian Walton, Leif Davis, Azor Matusiwa, George Hirst, Jack Taylor, Darnell Furlong, Kasey McAteer, Jacob Greaves, Dara O'Shea (c), Marcelino Nunez, Jack Clarke
Subs: David Button, Cedric Kipre, Sindre Egeli, Jaden Philogene, Jens Cajuste, Ashley Young, Ben Johnson, Chuba Akpom, Ivan Azon

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Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-swansea-city-1-ipswich-town-4

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Match highlights

https://www.skysports.com/football/video/16428/13466614/swansea-1-4-ipswich-championship-highlights

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Post-match reaction from Alan Sheehan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIGzo-w0DtU

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Swansea 1 (Franco 50’) - Ipswich 4 (Clarke 36’, Burgess 55’ o.g., 81’ o.g., Azon 77’)
Another bitterly disappointing show at home as we slumped to our second successive defeat and drop down to 18th in the table.
Ipswich by far the better side, it was men against boys for most of the match.
The Tractor Boys didn’t need to collapse at every Swans tackle though, they were good enough without that. They outmuscled us, helped by a blatantly biased referee who yellow carded five Swans players when they tried the same rough stuff.
There’s a question mark over Sheehan’s future now. He needs to get back to basics and do what he was doing right whilst in temporary charge last season or there’ll be only one outcome.

[Estoban]

After watching that shambles yesterday it will be a relief that the International break is upon us once more, not to suffer anymore rubbish football from the Swans for two weeks. It was torture to watch us being outmanoeuvred and outplayed by a smarter manager and better players. We had no recognisable plan or tactics and we kept on being outmuscled and losing the ball.
I don’t know what came over Burgess, who unbelievably scored two own goals to assist his Ipswich mates to the win.
This is the reality and relegation form: 2 wins from 8 home matches, 2 wins from 7 away matches and most damning of all 2 wins in the last 10 matches.

[Estoban]

Extended highlights if you can bear to watch it:

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/extended-highlights-swansea-city-v-ipswich-town-0

[Iolo]

A new low yesterday boys.
Here we go it’s Groundhog Day again. Same situation different manager.
We cannot find a decent manager, third one in a row that can’t manage.
I despair, we cannot buy a win.
Southampton and Ipswich matches were an embarrassment and it’s time for change before it’s to late.