Swansea v FC Lorient

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Swansea v FC Lorient Sat 2 Aug 15:00
A stern test from a French Ligue One team

Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Arthur Parker, Cameron Burgess (captain), Josh Tymon; Jay Fulton, Goncalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Melker Widell, Ronald; Liam Cullen.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jisung Eom, Bobby Wales, Zeidane Inoussa, Joel Cotterill, Ollie Cooper, Sam Parker, Cameron Congreve, Sebastian Dabrowski, Iestyn Jones.



FC Lorient: Benjamin Leroy, Igor Silva, Montassar Talbi, Laurent Abergel, Mohamed Bamba, Aiyegun Tosin, Gedeon Kalulu, Darlin Yongwa, Arthur Avom, Joel Mvuka.

Substitutes: Noah Cadiou, Bandiougou Fadiga, Jeremy Hatchi, Lucas Leaudais, Jean Victor Makengo, Fornose Mendy, Isak Monnier, Stevan Siba, Sambou Soumano, Bingourou Kamara, Bahliseni Fofana.

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And so it turned out. They were a class above Swansea and were cruising 3-0 at half-time, one a penalty.
A slick passing all out attacking side they gave the Swans a football lesson and created chances with ease.
Second-half they took their foot off the gas. Cullen scored but ruled offside, looked onside from where I was.
Then Ronald was upended in the area and Cullen put the penalty away to make it 3-1 and that was the final score.
We look blunt up front and weak defensively with only a week to go before the season starts.

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Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-swansea-city-1-fc-lorient-3

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Our head-coach post match reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-7kPHH3v-ys

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Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L94nbLNvXYo

[Estoban]

Lorient a really good team and will be playing the likes of PSG this season, no shame in losing to them.
This is the standard of friendly we need to be playing more in pre-season to test ourselves properly.

[Iolo]

Weakness in squad cover apparent and has not been addressed with only a week to go for the season opener.
We need a striker and centre-back as a priority. Hopefully movement in the next few days.