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Swansea v Bristol City
Swansea v Bristol City Sun 29 Sept 15:00
The question on everybody’s lips is can we continue with the drive, the endeavour and the will to win shown by the players in the last two games. Certainly we have the building blocks of doing something this season.
The defence particularly has shown the way with only four goals conceded in six games, one an own goal, one a penalty. The downside is that our two centre-backs are out of contract the end of this season and seemingly are not impressed with the new contracts on offer. Unfortunately they are able to talk to other clubs in January.
The owners latest policy of lowering the players wage bill and other Championship clubs with much bigger budgets than ours hovering, the prospect of keeping them doesn’t look too good at the moment.
Back to the next match and it’s Bristol City at home on Sunday. They did the double over us last season so an extra incentive to win this one.
Liam Manning is their head-coach and last time out they beat newcomers Oxford with a late penalty for their second win of the season.
They splashed £10m on three players this summer with one outgoing player £5m.
May the best team win, Swansea of course.
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Swansea 1 (Cabango 15’) - Bristol C 1 (Knight 76’)
Lawrence Vigouroux, Kyle Naughton (Key 61’), Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Josh Tymon; Matt Grimes (captain), Goncalo Franco (Allen 73’), Ollie Cooper; Ronald, Zan Vipotnik (Peart-Harris 73’), Jisung Eom (Abdulai 89’)
Unused subs: McLaughlin, Fulton, Bianchini, A-On, Abbey
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Frustrating game. We looked good first half but Robins were no mugs and fought us all the way. An early goal on 15’ from Cabango, we hit the post from a Cooper block and a Franco shot that should have been a goal was well saved. The Robins keeper looked shaky but we couldn’t take advantage. It was end to end stuff and the visitors had their chances too.
Second half and we were hanging on at times, no more so than in the final stages. Our subs made no difference and it was inevitable that we conceded on 76’ to give Robins their first point on the road this season. Stand outs for Swans were Vigouroux, Cooper, Eom and Franco, disappointments were Ronald, Grimes, Tymon, Allen, Peart-Harris and Abdulai.
Huge disappointment with a draw but it could have been worse. It felt very much like the Cardiff draw recently.
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I was waiting for your comments before posting my comments jackaway. I’m just getting ready for work. Disappointing day for us Jacks.
A mediocre team so far this season, Bristol City surprised everybody with their tenacity, skill and good football, and at times seemed to want the win more than us.
Our 66%-34% possession stats meant nothing with Bristol having double the amount of shots than us and three times as many shots on target with their relatively meagre possession.
Ironically we should have got that second goal, to make it harder for them to come back, in the first half when we were more dominant. With only one recognised striker Vipotnik as an option and isolated up front (Cullen bug and Yates and Kuharevich out on loan to cut the wage bill) it was left to the midfield to try and score. Zan had one hooked shot wide and some nice touches but needs more game time. Cooper unlucky not to score, the block ball curling wide to hit the post and out, Franco shot straight at the goalkeeper, should have scored, but not our day, we move on with the draw, a point gained and 9th place in the table.
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Only my opinion boys, here’s my take on it.
We fought hard but did our usual burn-out first-half and consequently ran out of steam second-half.
Substitutions were poor and confusing, which weakened us further, best players Eom and Franco removed, Ronald had a poor game and was surprisingly left on. Is Allen past it?
Ref poor, let too many fouls go from the yokels and gave them so many free-kicks second-half I lost count, also a penalty shout for us, play waved on.
A 50/50 tackle and the ball deflected over the line was deemed a corner for them which resulted in their goal, 5’8” midfielder Jason Knight out -jumping 6’2” Darling for the header with the static Grimes watching on.
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