Swansea v Leicester

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Swansea v Leicester Sat 4 Oct 15:00
Contrasting fortunes for these two teams on Tuesday night. Leicester could only draw at home 1-1 to Wrexham, while the Swans got a rare win 1-2 at Blackburn.
New head-coach Marti Cifuentes has not had the best of starts for Leicester so far. The anticipated easy return to the Championship after relegation last season is not happening. They are in fifth place on 13 points and 5 points adrift of top club Middlesbrough. They have only lost one game from eight played so far W3 D4 L1, a 2-1 defeat at Preston, but more was expected of them, still early days yet though.
The Swans win last night puts them 1 point behind Leicester in seventh place overnight with more games scheduled Wednesday night.
After the Leicester game there is an International break. Cabango and Cullen have been called up to the Welsh squad.
Good luck Swans.

[Iolo]

It will be a tough one boys, but we have the players to win this.
Depends how the team is set up and whether we plug the gaps out wide.
Two of our ex-goalies played against each other tonight - Benda for Millwall, Rushworth for Coventry. Outfield players Luke Cundle for Millwall, Matt Grimes and Jake Bidwell for Coventry. Coventry showed Swansea how to do it with a 4-0 win at the Den and look to be a force to be reckoned with this season.

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Pre-match pressy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu9nvRiR44E

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Windy forecast tomorrow for the match.
Hoping for a win before the two week break, where many of our players will be on International duty.

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Swans: Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango (c), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco, Liam Cullen, Ronald, Jisung Eom, Zan Vipotnik
Subs: Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Malick Yalcouye, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Manuel Benson, Kaelan Casey, Zeidane Inoussa, Ethan Galbraith, Adam Idah

Leicester: Jakub Stolarczyk, Wout Faes, Jordan James, Abdul Fatawu, Harry Winks, Bobby Decordova-Reid, Patson Daka, Ricardo Pereira (c), Jannik Vestergaard, Jeremy Monga, Luke Thomas
Subs: Asmir Begovic, Caleb Okoli, Jordan Ayew, Hamza Choudhury, Julian Carranza, Oliver Skipp, Boubakary Soumare, Aaron Ramsey, Silko-Amari Thomas

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Match highlights

https://www.skysports.com/football/video/11731/13444474/swansea-1-3-leicester-championship-highlights

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Match reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ3Mah3W6M

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Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-swansea-city-1-leicester-city-3-0

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Swansea 1 (Idah pen 70’) - Leicester 3 (James 13’, Fatawu 77’, Vestergaard 85’)
Swans handed a football lesson this afternoon. Three goals could have been five, for Leicester’s best win of the season.
Huge disappointment for Swans fans after the midweek win at Blackburn, once again it was after the Lord Mayors show.
Wrong team selection, wrong team tactics, substitutions too late and the normally tight defence was carved wide open.
Back to the drawing board in the two week break then.

[Iolo]

Here we are boys, my Sunday morning verdict on yesterday’s weak performance.
Two “worldies” for their goals, but they were allowed too much room for the shots.
We were poor in possession and players were too static and far apart to link up.
Right flank not working, Key the weak link in defence and attack, passing back 9 out of 10 times. Stamenic was poor too.
Little or no service to the strikers, overhit or under hit crosses, we looked overawed and nervous as kittens.
A reality check of where we are, our unbeaten home record gone and mid-table obscurity the best we can hope for.
Says it all when Sheehan say he’s proud of the players, really!!

[Estoban]

If Sheehan’s game plan is pace then yesterday there was none. We were so sluggish and our passes were easily readable and intercepted as we plodded throughout, making it easy for the opposition.
A lot was expected from this squad but they are not producing. Is it the tactics, the substitutions or the coaching? Whatever, it’s not working and was exposed yesterday by a team coming here on the back of four draws. Meanwhile two of the summer signings, Widell and Wales, were sitting in the stand, they couldn’t even make the match day squad.

[Estoban]

Extended highlights

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/extended-highlights-swansea-city-v-leicester-city-0

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12 points from 27, won 3, drawn 3, lost 3.
Our three wins this season turn out to be against the bottom three.
Stamenic yesterday was static, looked tired and lethargic.
Cullen played out of position and was the wrong choice.
Why wasn’t Galbraith played from the start.
Both full backs weak defensively, especially Key, why can't we stop so many crosses.
We didn't mark the middle of the pitch properly especially first-half
and allowed too much room for players to get off shots instead of crowding them out.