Hull v Swansea

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Hull v Swansea Sat 24 Jan 15:00
It is one of the longest trips of the season on Saturday as we take on fourth place Hull. Both teams coming into the match off the back of wins, Hull a resounding 0-3 win at Preston and the Swans a 3-1 win over Blackburn.
Swans will want to improve their away record after impressing at home under Matos.
We have Vipotnik, the Championship’s leading scorer on 13 goals, Hull have ex-Swan Ollie McBurnie on 10 goals close behind. Our squad was boosted today by the signing of young 20 year-old Brazilian winger on loan from Brentford Gustavo Nunes, who can play on either side. Inoussa is definitely out with a back injury and Galbraith is being assessed after coming off with a leg injury last match.
Hull drew down here last September with a late late equaliser in the 97th minute, hopefully we can do the same to them up there. They have won three and lost three of their last six home matches so it is not inconceivable that we can get something there. Come on you Swans!

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Pre-match Press Conference with Vitor Matos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmM03ql7ND0

[Iolo]

Hoping our new Brazilian loan winger will deliver the goods tomorrow. Only 20 years old but very highly thought of by Brentford.
Gustavo will feel right at home in Swansea with the Portuguese speaking contingent, head-coach Matos and his three assistants, plus players Franco and fellow Brazilian Ronald.
Hull have an injury crisis they say, but you could have fooled me, winning 0-3 at 6th placed Preston mid-week.
Talking of our ex-players there, you mentioned McBurnie, there is also another, remember Kyle Joseph.
So two pronged attack and what’s the likelihood one of them scores!

[Estoban]

Hull were lucky down here with a last gasp winner as we lost concentration.
Their home form is not as good as their away form so can be exploited.
Our away form needs to improve if we are to challenge at the top half of the table, at the moment it’s letting us down.

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Todays line up -
Fulton and Cullen in for Stamenic and Widell. New loan signing Gustavo Nunes on the subs bench.

Swans: Lawrence Vigouroux, Ethan Galbraith, Ben Cabango (c), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Jay Fulton, Goncalo Franco, Liam Cullen, Ronald, Jisung Eom, Zan Vipotnik.
Subs: Andy Fisher, Josh Key, Marko Stamenic, Melker Widell, Malick Yalcouye, Gustavo Nunes, Bobby Wales, Joel Ward, Ollie Cooper.

Hull: Ivor Pandur, Lewie Coyle (c), Charlie Hughes, Liam Millar, Oli McBurnie, John Egan, Amir Hadziahmetovic, Joe Gelhardt, Kyle Joseph, Akin Famewo, Regan Slater.
Subs: Dillion Phillips, John Lundstram, David Akintola, Yu Hirakawa, Matty Jacob, Joel Ndala, Matt Crooks, Kieran Dowell, Cathal McCarthy.

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Hull 2 (McBurnie 24’pen, Slater 39’) - Swansea 1 (Cullen 59’)
A game of two halves. Unfortunately another defeat on the road. It could have been an away win but for chances missed
First-half -
Vipotnik guilty of shooting wide of an open goal - twice! A stupid gift of a penalty for hand-ball by Cabango, arm outstretched what was he doing, McBurnie sent Vigouroux the wrong way 1-0.
A 30 yard volley from the unmarked Slater 2-0.
A late Hull surge on our goal but we held firm
HT: 2-0
Second-half -
All Swansea as they pinned Hull back in their final third most of the time, except for the occasional foray, but all our chances were well saved, a Cullen header just before he scored was saved full stretch and a Stamenic volley also saved full stretch. Goalmouth scrambles galore but the ball wouldn’t fall for us, Hull defending desperately.
Surprisingly (although not surprisingly thinking about it, with many a ref biased against us) there were just four minutes time added on by the ref, but there were ten substitutions plus injury time to be taken into account.
(NB: Whilst not a strict rule, referees often work with a rule of thumb of approximately 30 seconds per substitution to account for the player leaving the field and the new player entering).
At the end of the day another loss though, no matter how unfortunate we were not to score and win the game.

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Reaction from Vitor Matos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qR7xeRJGyqI

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Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-hull-city-2-swansea-city-1-0

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Match highlights

https://www.skysports.com/football/hull-city-vs-swansea/report/534659

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Extended highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gppo3v5gKtk

[Estoban]

Second half we played well but couldn’t convert our chances.
The damage was done first half when Cabango foolishly handled the ball, blatant hand ball in front of the ref, and the game changed in their favour. How Vipotnik missed those two chances is anybody’s guess.
We move on but very frustrated that we threw that match away. We had them on the ropes at the end.

[Estoban]

70% possession and we couldn’t make it count, 14 shots on goal as well.
Some of that first half defending was woeful though. Whatever was said in the dressing room at half-time certainly worked. Galbraith went off at half-time, replaced by Key, same old, good going forward but weak at defending.

[Iolo]

Here we go boys same old thing we can’t finish teams off and always an individual mistake each game that’s costly.
Hull were depleted by injury yet we gifted them the lead. The truth is the squad is not good enough, we can’t play to the same standard for 90 minutes rotating the players, why doesn’t he pick his best players each match instead of juggling the team.
We can’t sustain the type of football he wants us to play through the whole match. It also leaves us open on the flanks to the counter.
Galbraith was exposed at right-back yesterday, maybe because he was carrying a knock.
Key is still out of form and the player brought in, Ward, is not match fit after being out of work since last summer and lacks pace anyway at his age. Our two centre-backs also lack pace and young Casey, who had pace to burn, returned home after not being given any game time..
We need a different strategy in away games, we are too open. We have won only one match in six away games under Matos, just 3 points from 18, relegation form.

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Extended highlights -

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

[Iolo]

Another whole week on the training field boys before the Watford away match next Saturday, let’s be having you.
Matos and his coaching team have their hands full to get this team winning matches away from their home comfort zone.