Bristol City v Swansea

[jackaway]

Bristol City v Swansea, Saturday 22 November, 12:30
It’s an early kick-off in store to resume our league action this Saturday and an easy one to travel to for our away fans.
The Robins are in 8th position but have lost three home games already, their good away form compensating.
Swans will be without Tymon and Cabango for this one as they are serving a one match suspension.
Scott Twine 6 goals and Anis Mehmeti 5 goals, Emil Riis 4 goals, are the danger men for The Robins.
Let’s hope we catch them on an off day.
I’m assuming our coaches O’Dea, O’Leary and Margetson will be in temporary charge, good luck to them.

[Estoban]

Seems like another nice guy in charge, this is the O’Dea press conference on Bristol City. He has been put in charge for this match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDY0YJ4yqk

[jackaway]

Today’s line-up:

Swansea City:
Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Marko Stamenic, Jisung Eom, Cameron Burgess (c), Ishe Samuels-Smith, Liam Cullen, Kaelan Casey, Ethan Galbraith, Adam Idah, Ronald

Subs:
Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Melker Widell, Malick Yalcouye, Zan Vipotnik, Goncalo Franco, Manuel Benson, Ricardo Santos, Zeidane Inoussa


Bristol City:
Radek Vitek, Ross McCrorie, Adam Randell, Scott Twine, Anis Mehmeti, Zak Vyner, Rob Dickie (c), Emil Riis, George Tanner, Neto Borges, Sinclair Armstrong

Subs:
Max O'Leary, Cameron Pring, Yu Hirakawa, Fally Mayulu, Jason Knight, Mark Sykes, Haydon Roberts, Elijah Morrison, Olly Thomas

[jackaway]

Bristol City 3 (Dickie 4’, Riis 31’, Hirakawa 82') - Swansea 0

Another three goals conceded without reply and another poor display.
Players had no confidence in what they were doing and it showed.
Bristol were no great shakes having failed to win in the last three games but we made them look good by weak defending for all three goals.
O’Dea had the chance to show us what he can do but it was more of the same old rubbish churned out all season.
Take no notice of friendly pre-season defeats against lower league opposition they said, but the warning signs were there even then.
Vitor Matos looks a done deal. We better hope that he’s any good otherwise League One awaits us.

[jackaway]

Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-bristol-city-3-swansea-city-0

[Estoban]

Alarm bells are ringing for me. How do you get these players playing again. Some were just going through the motions and heads were down, where was the captain to rally them
We are 20th of 24 in the table and on a disastrous run. What can Matos bring to the table?
We needed an experienced Championship manager who could get us back on track, not a rookie who has never managed at all until he went to the Portuguese second division recently.

[Iolo]

Match highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYivMjnnxug

[Iolo]

Boys that was poor from our team today and the defending was awful, two goals from set-pieces and a counter-attack that left us wide open.
All the subs were used, a strong bench came on but still we could do nothing.

Anyway, thanks guys for spoiling my weekend.

Not looking forward to Tuesday, it’s not fun anymore, these basic schoolboy football mistakes are a hard watch.

[Iolo]

And what made it worse, the new head-coach Vitor Matos was watching from the Stand.
Even his presence couldn’t motivate our players.