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Oxford v Swansea
Oxford v Swansea Sat 02 Nov 12:30
Early kick-off for our next match and it’s a 314 miles round trip via the M4-A34 to the 12.5k capacity Kassam Stadium, home of Championship newcomers Oxford United. Four miles from the city centre the West end of the ground behind the goal has no stand and is walled off and used as a car park.
Head-Coach Des Buckingham guided Oxford to promotion via the League One play-offs last season, defeating Bolton in the final.
They sit three places above us in the table and are unbeaten at home with 3 wins and 3 draws, but are without a win in the last 7 games, 5 draws and 2 defeats.
Swans player links with Oxford - Jeremy Charles played for Oxford from 1985-1987 after seven years at Swansea.
Swans are bottom but one in the form table and are in ‘no man’s land’ without a win in the last 6 games and without a goal in their last 5.
It should be an interesting game then!
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So, they’ve had a week off without a game and it’s back to match action tomorrow and three games in a week again before yet another two week International break.
Oxford away, Watford home, Burnley away, coming up. We must get something from these games to halt the slide.
It was so frustrating watching us lose in the final minutes to a poor Millwall team, who had barely threatened our goal throughout, until our goalkeeper error let them in.
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The line-ups are out. Allen starts. Christie back in the fold, on the bench after signing this week. Govea back after injury -
Swans: Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Josh Tymon, Matt Grimes (c), Joe Allen, Goncalo Franco, Ronald, Myles-Peart-Harris, Zan Vipotnik
Subs: Jon McLaughlin, Florian Bianchini, Liam Cullen, Nathan Tjoe-A-On, Cyrus Christie, Kyle Naughton, Nelson Abbey, Aimar Govea, Azeem Abdulai.
Oxford: Jamie Cumming, Ciaron Brown, Elliot Moore (c), Josh Mceachran, Mark Harris, Louie Sibley, Ben Nelson, Owen Dale, Tyler Goodrham, Ruben Rodrigues, Peter Kioso
Subs: Mat Ingram, Sam Long, Will Vaulks, Malcom Ebiowei, Idris El Mizouni, Greg Leigh, Hidde Ter Avest, Will Goodwin, Dane Scarlett
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FT: Oxford 1 (Scarlett 87’) - Swansea 2 (Vipotnik 37’, Bianchini 79’)
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Such a dominant performance by Swansea except for the ends of each half. Don’t know whether it’s a lack of concentration or what but the end of the second half especially we were hanging on, maybe it was too many substitutions, four in all.
The main thing is we won, we scored two goals after a long barren spell, we took Oxford’s unbeaten home record and catapulted up the table to 11th because of the early kick off, which could change when the other results come in.
Anyway a very satisfying day after the turmoil of the last week.
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Surprise win today and back to scoring goals again. It’s been tough the last 6 games and we should realistically have picked up more points.
It was a lot better performance, so many chances, and to win at Oxford and take their unbeaten record was no mean feat.
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Hello lads and lasses, Iolo here.
Much better performance yesterday and we actually scored this time. I thought Millwall were lucky last week, a rare mistake by Vigours for that late goal. Oxford had their chances but fluffed them, tough.
Happy weekend for a change.
