Swansea v West Brom (FA Cup Third Round) Sun 11 Jan 14:30

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Swansea v West Brom (FA Cup Third Round) Sun 11 Jan 14:30
It?s a two week break from league action after the hectic Christmas schedule with an FA Cup tie sandwiched in between for light relief.
It depends how serious we are taking this cup tie but we should be going all out to win as it?s a lucrative revenue stream for the club.
I expect to see the usual changes to give fringe players a chance but for me we should play our strongest side.
After the mauling, foul wise in the New Year?s Day game against West Brom one would hope we get a decent referee this time, not like that last game where West Brom were allowed to foul at will.

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West Brom have parted ways with 34 year-old Head-Coach Ryan Mason after seven months, together with Assistant Head Coach Nigel Gibbs (ex-Swans) and First Team Coach Sam Pooley. They suffered their tenth successive away defeat in Monday’s 2-1 loss at Leicester.
Five defeats in the last seven games was too much to bear for the USA owners the Patel family.

[Iolo]

According to the Swans Independent forum ticket sales have been slow so far.
I suppose we saw enough of West Brom and their roughhouse tactics last home match.
The thought of maybe fielding a weakened team to give fringe players a chance plus it’s on the box is putting some people off.
For me I expect to see a different West Brom with an interim manager in charge and probably ditching the previous head-coaches tactics for his own ideas after having a week to work with the players.

[Estoban]

Key fit again, Idah out for three months, less than was thought.

Press Conference link here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjARZ-mxiCI

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Swans: Andy Fisher, Ethan Galbraith, Ben Cabango (c), Kaelan Casey, Josh Tymon, Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco, Melker Widell, Ronald, Jisung Eom, Zan Vipotnik
Subs: Paul Farman, Josh Key, Jay Fulton, Malick Yalcouye, Cameron Burgess, Bobby Wales, Joel Ward, Zeidane Inoussa, Ollie Cooper.

West Brom: Josh Griffiths, Chris Mepham, Callum Styles, Krystian Bielik (c), Josh Maja, Mikey Johnston, Daryl Dike, Alfie Gilchrist, Ousmane Diakite, Isaac Price, Charle Taylor.
Subs: Joe Wildsmith, Nathaniel Phillips, George Campbell, Jed Wallace, Karlan Grant, Aune Heggebo, Samuel Iling-Junior, Harry Whitwell, Oliver Bostock.

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FT: Swansea 1 (Eom 48’) - West Brom 1 (Maja 53’)

ET: Swansea 2 (Inoussa 112’) - West Brom 2 (Wallace 108’)

Penalties 5-6

Goodbye Swans, Wales and Yalcouye miss.

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Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iprW36quFg

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Reaction from Vitor Matos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=za1NMcEw9Z0

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Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-swansea-city-2-west-bromwich-albion-2-5-6-penalties

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Defence the downfall for the second match running, balls in the box we cannot handle. The long throw Baggies first goal.
Swans should have won this in normal time the chances we had but we lack a regular goalscorer.
Back to the drawing board and another week on the training field before next Saturdays home match against Brum.

[Estoban]

What a frustrating watch that was!
We just can’t score goals, all those chances. Yes we scored two but should have been double that at least.
Then at the other end weak goalkeeping for both goals.
The build up, some lovely passing moves and you can see the improvement but we are not there yet.

[Estoban]

Highlights from TNT Sports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9O6yVhcol0

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I also thought Fisher was poor in goal, vulnerable to Baggies accurate crosses every time, he did not dominate his area, and the penalties he dove the wrong way for most of them.
A lot of much needed revenue lost as well. Oh for someone who can score those chances.
Yalcouye surely had a restless sleep last night, hit the post and missed his penalty.
New guy Joel Ward fitted in okay but lacked any pace, you could see he wasn’t match fit.
Key came on for Ronald and played well, creating the goal for Inoussa.
Widell the Duracell Bunny, where does he get so much energy from, chased everything, well done to him.

[Iolo]

Almost 10k crowd there, poor for the FA Cup. Swans fans so fickle not turning up, only a tenner to get in and consequently a bit of a surreal atmosphere with the South Stand closed and empty. Know what the Ospreys rugby was complaining about now.