Swansea v Coventry

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Swansea v Coventry Sat 21 March 17:15
It’s a time change to a Saturday evening kick-off for Sky Sports live coverage as we take on top of the table Coventry.
Their head-coach Frank Lampard guided Coventry to fifth last season, losing to Sunderland in the play-off semi-final. This season they’ve led the table for most of the season and look certs for automatic promotion.
Lampard was appointed in November 2024 taking over from manager of eight years Mark Robins, who was controversially sacked by wealthy businessman owner Doug King for lack of progress. Robins had got them promotion back to the Championship in 2020. Prior to that they had dropped to League Two in 2017 but won promotion at the first attempt the following year to League One.
Swans have been strong at home so hopefully we’ll give them a good game.
Team news and Adam Idah is available for selection after long term injury but Josh Key is doubtful.

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The Championship’s leading goalscorer Zan Vipotnik signs new contract through to 2030!

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/zan-vipotnik-signs-new-swansea-city-contract

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Pre-match Press Conference with Vitor Matos

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

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Swans: Lawrence Vigouroux, Ethan Galbraith, Ben Cabango (c), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Jay Fulton, Goncalo Franco, Melker Widell, Ronald, Jisung Eom, Zan Vipotnik

Subs: Andy Fisher, Marko Stamenic, Malick Yalcouye, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Gustavo Nunes, Liam Cullen, Leo Walta, Joel Ward, Adam Idah

Coventry: Carl Rushworth, Jay Dasilva, Bobby Thomas, Matt Grimes (c), Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Ellis Simms, Ephron Mason-Clark, Frank Onyeka, Joel Latibeaudiere, Brandon Thomas-Asante, Milan van Ewij

Subs: Ben Wilson, Romain Esse, Liam Kitching, Kaine Kesler-Hayden, Jake Bidwell, Jahnoah Markelo, Luke Woolfenden, Josh Eccles, Victor Torp

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Match report

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

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Reaction post match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYH6awyt1to

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Extended highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8v8m6_IuIo

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Swansea 0 - Coventry 3 (Asante 33’ pen, Grimes 38’, Sakamoto 43’)
A game of missed chances for Swansea, hitting the bar twice, Franco and VIP missing good chances. It was another sub-standard ref that turned the game by awarding a very dubious penalty against Cabango on Mason-Clark, it looked to me as if Clark dived without any contact.
Coventry were very clinical and played some good football but got away with many fouls unpunished by the biased maybe inept officialdom.
You cannot play for just 30 minutes in a match and expect to win it. The second-half was embarrassing as we didn’t have any idea how to break down their defence. Coventry just sat back and consolidated, waiting to hit us on the break.
What hurt the most was they had four ex-Swans playing against us and one of them, the runaway Grimes scored. The one who dumped us unceremoniously at the first sign of interest in him right at the end of the transfer window after we had given him ten years worth of contracts as our best paid player. He left us high and dry with no time to get a replacement in, luckily we managed to get Lewis O’Brien last minute but paid a high price in top wages.
It was a clear difference in class between the two teams yesterday and it showed us where we are in terms of challenging to get out of this league - a mid to lower table team at the moment. The defence needs a shake up, we are lacking a midfield general, we are inept on the wings especially with Ronald, who strangely keeps on getting picked, plus we need some shooting practice, otherwise everything’s fine!

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Maybe it has been a case of Swans buying potential against Coventry buying experience. That is the difference to me. They had the money. They bought former Swans loanee Gyokeres for 950k from Brighton, sold him for 17.5m to Sporting Lisbon with a sell on clause. Arsenal came calling and bought him for 55m gifting Coventry another 4m. They used this 21.5m wisely and bought in experienced players including Grimes, plus a quality manager.
They have a big ground, a big fan base with 31k gates every match and yesterday brought 3k fans with them, drowning out our lot. Mind you we didn’t have much to shout about yesterday.

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Well boys that was the proverbial s..t show yesterday after the first 30 minutes. It could well have been a different outcome if our chances had gone in during that period where the teams were evenly matched.
Another wayward ref giving a soft penalty (how come we never get one) turned the game in their favour and their clinical finishing ended the game as a contest. Grimes rubbing our noses in it and pretending to be sorry, oh dear.
Best forgotten and quickly move on with more tough games to come after the break.

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Well one could always go and watch the women’s football today, maybe you’ll actually see a Swans team score some goals.

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/preview-cardiff-city-women-v-swansea-city-women-4

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Shucks, they lost too!

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-cardiff-city-women-2-swansea-city-women-1