West Brom v Swansea

[jackaway]

West Brom v Swansea Sat 12 Aug 15:00
Josh Ginnelly, Josh Key, Jerry Yates, Carl Rushworth, Mykola Kuharevich, Harrison Ashby, Michael Patino - seven newcomers through the door and two more to come apparently.
We’ve certainly been unusually busy in the transfer market this summer. Fans expectations will be high with all these recent new quality signings coming in to boost the squad, but we must be patient whilst Michael Duff gets them to gel as a team.
This afternoon we travel to West Brom for our first away league match of the new season.
Our head-coach reports no new injuries after last Tuesday’s EFL Cup win over Northampton, only a selection headache with everyone playing so well.
The away allocation of 2,000 tickets is sold out so Jack Army will be out in force for this one.
It has been poor start to the Baggies season so far where they lost 2-1 at Blackburn last Saturday and then 2-1 at Stoke in the EFL Cup in midweek, after making nine changes from the Blackburn match.
They will be hoping to bounce back against us so we will have to be at our best to get anything from this one.
I’m going for the draw but hoping for a win.

[Estoban]

Here we go -

Swans: Carl Rushworth, Harry Darling, Ben Cabango, Nathan Wood, Harrison Ashby, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (c), Ollie Cooper, Josh Key, Joel Piroe, Jerry Yates

Subs: Andy Fisher, Joe Allen, Josh Ginnelly, Jamie Paterson, Charlie Patino, Mykola Kuharevich, Liam Cullen, Kyle Naughton, Azeem Abdulai.

[Estoban]

And the Baggies -
Alex Palmer, Darnell Furlong, Conor Townsend, Cedric Kipre, Semi Ajayi, Jed Wallace (c), Jayson Molumby, Matt Phillips, Erik Pieters, John Swift, Okay Yokuslu.
Subs -
Josh Griffiths, Kyle Bartley, Josh Maja, Nathaniel Chalobah, Jeremy Sarmiento, Alex Mowatt, Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Tom Fellows, Ethan Ingram.

[jackaway]

WBA 3 (Ajayi 18’, Rushworth 50’ og, Swift 64’ pen) - Swans 2 (Darling 74’, Wood 80’)
Couldn’t hold the ball, passes going astray as West Brom outplayed us for sixty five minutes.
The rest of the game we scored two, could have been four as it was our turn to dominate with several good chances.
Draw would have been fair after that comeback but not to be.

[Estoban]

Highlights

https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...hip-highlights

[Estoban]

Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rep...swansea-city-2

[Estoban]

Back to the drawing board I’m afraid. Both teams poor but we were worst. We didn’t wake up until 3-0 down only then did we start to play.

[Estoban]

This is what the boss said post-match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUlpv7M0OIM

[Iolo]

Extended highlights

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rXAS3lfRsjg

[Iolo]

Both defences looked poor.
Back three not working with these players, as Martin found out.
Wide open on our left. Couldn’t handle the long throw-ins, out-jumped in the air every time.
Sleeping our way to defeat until we were 3-0 down, then suddenly woke up after 65 mins and nearly won it.
Some of those players won’t be in the team next week.
Two poor teams on display yesterday.
We look to have gone backwards under Duff, but chwarae teg he has to be given at least ten matches to sort it out.