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Burnley v Swansea
The tough matches keep on coming. This afternoon it’s Burnley away.
Classed as the seventh richest club in the Premier League in 2019, in 2020 they were taken over by ALK Capital, an American consortium, who took out a £65m loan at that time.
With relegation they are now in financial trouble due to the terms of that loan. They’ve offloaded goalkeeper Nick Pope to Newcastle for £10m and defenders Ben Mee and James Tarkowski have also gone, but the nucleus of a PL squad is still there.
The Clarets are one of the favourites to bounce straight back. Sean Dyche, their long serving manager, was sacked and has been replaced by ex-Man City icon Vincent Kompany:
“If we don't have the ball, we must be aggressive and on the front foot. When we have the ball, find some spaces to score a goal and don't be afraid of having the ball. From a defensive side, I do have an aggressive side too. I can't have players pulling out of challenges, no way."
They are in fourth position in the Championship table on 22 points, one point ahead of us, and have lost only once this season, 1-0 at Watford. They have drawn four and won two of their last six matches.
They have two ex-Swans Jack Cork and Connor Roberts who will be there to greet us, let’s not give them the chance to celebrate a win.
I’m going for a score draw.
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Manning out injured, the team:
Swans: Steven Benda, Nathan Wood, Ben Cabango, Kyle Naughton, Joel Latibeaudiere, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (c), Matty Sorinola, Olivier Ntcham, Joel Piroe, Michael Obafemi.
Subs: Andy Fisher, Harry Darling, Luke Cundle, Liam Cullen, Armstrong Oko-Flex, Fin Stevens, Ollie Cooper.
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Bit of a tanking yesterday boys. Wrong team selection, wrong tactics, wrong formation, wrong subs, against a known quantity.
A back three and two wing-backs with no pace who couldn’t defend against a quality team with two fast wingers and a high press, only one outcome.
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Sad day for us, Swans torn apart with their naive game plan.
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rus...burnley-defeat
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Speechless after that performance.
If that’s what training and staying at a luxury spa hotel does for them before the match, it’s an experiment that’s gone badly wrong.
Naive defending at its worst. Lethargic, no fight, gutless display.
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https://www.lancs.live/sport/footbal...m_medium=email
Some interesting reflections here on Saturday’s game. Hope you don’t mind me visiting your board. Are Swansea going to appeal Piroe’s red card?
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Martin’s system can be exploited by speedy wingers and a high press, this is exactly what Kompany did.
We haven’t got the players good enough or fast enough to fill the wing-back roles which leaves our centre-backs exposed, and there’s no money to get them, so he fits round pegs in square holes.
Our regular left wing-back Manning was injured, a huge miss, so he switched our right wing-back Sorinola to left wing-back.
He brought in centre-back Latibeaudiere, just back from a dislocated shoulder injury, to play right wing-back with disastrous effect.
His tactics were naive to say the least.
We’ll know later today if he’s appealing Piroe’s red card.
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Martin was advised not to appeal, plus the danger with appeals being that the 3 match ban could be extended.
Piroe misses the Reading, Cardiff and Bristol City matches.
