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Swansea v Watford
Swansea v Watford, Tue 25 Oct 19:45
Final word, Leicester were just too good for us, no shame in that, they were a PL squad and still are. Even after losing top players James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Youri Tielemans for £103m, they replaced with £44m worth of talent in Harry Winks, Thomas Cannon, Connor Coady, Stephy Mavididi and Mads Hermensen. We cannot compete with that level of trading players.
We move on to Tuesday and focus on getting back to winning ways.
Out of form Watford are the visitors under new head-coach Valerian Ismael, formerly of Barnsley and West Brom. They beat bottom of the table Sheff Wed at Vicarage Road last Saturday by the odd goal and will be looking to build on that result.
Only two points separate the sides in 17th and 19th in the table respectively. I want to see us bouncing back with a win and show our recent run of form wasn’t a fluke.
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Swansea: Carl Rushworth, Kristian Pedersen, Jay Fulton, Harry Darling, Matt Grimes (c), Jerry Yates, Jamal Lowe, Jamie Paterson, Liam Cullen, Harrison Ashby, Bashir Humphreys.
Subs: Andy Fisher, Josh Tymon, Charlie Patino, Nathan Tjoe-A-On, Kyle Naughton, Liam Walsh, Ollie Cooper, Sam Parker, Cameron Congreve.
Watford: Daniel Bachmann (c), Jeremy Ngakia, Francisco Sierralta, Wesley Hoedt, Jamal Lewis, Tom Ince, Jake Livermore, Ismael Kone, Vakoun Bayo, Matheus Martins, Edo Kayembe.
Subs: Ben Hamer, Mileta Rajovic, Imran Louza, Ken Sema, Rhys Healey, Mattie Pollock, Giorgi Chakvetadze, Yaser Asprilla, James Morris.
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Swansea 0 - Watford 1 (Sema 82’)
It was down to earth with a bang last night with our second home defeat in four days with lowly Watford leapfrogging us in the table to win their first away match in nine months.
They’d only scored four goals in six away matches this season and conceded ten, but managed to nullify any threat posed by the Swans. The Grimes and Fulton combination in midfield has never worked and so it proved again. Patino was benched for this match, Key was out injured and it was too early for Cabango’s return.
Our sideways and back passing was boring, so was our humping the ball upfield to our diminutive centre forward trying to out jump two big centre-backs, possession lost each time.
With Watford’s high press and their midfield dominance we looked weak and lethargic in comparison. Their higher work rate paid off with the inevitable late goal conceded once again and the three points were lost in what was a Swans bore fest.
Duff’s substitution of Paterson, one of the only players who looked like he could break down Watford’s stubborn defence, was puzzling. Persisting with playing Cullen out wide is a waste, he’s a fox in the box, and he looked lost until subbed.
We did manage to score before Watford, a header by Pedersen in the 72’ from a corner but it was disallowed for some reason only known to the ref.
A bitterly disappointing night and down to 18th in the table and you have to wonder how we can pick ourselves up and go again after such a demoralising defeat.
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Our new striker Mykola also had also taken a knock and wasn’t risked.
That display was about as poor as it gets.
We can only play better in the next match after that display.
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