Swansea v Cardiff

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Swansea v Cardiff Sunday 25 Aug 15:00
It’s the big game of the season with Swans tickets already sold out, but Cardiff struggling to sell their allocation.
It seems a bit early in the season for this one and not the usual early kick-off time.
Cardiff have lost their opening two games and failed to score. Swans have won one and lost one.
Derbies are great levellers and it’s who makes the breakthrough on the day that counts, form goes out of the window.
Both teams have lost their centre-backs, Mark McGuiness, Cardiff to Luton and Nathan Wood, Swansea to Southampton.
After shedding 13 players including loans out, Swans squad are looking pretty thin. They have signed four players and another two players imminent. With Fisher injured Swans have no experienced back-up goalkeeper so this is the next priority with only nine days left of the transfer window.
The good news today is that Joe Allen is fit again after a hamstring injury and is available for Sunday.
May the best team win.

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The teams-

Swansea City:
Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Josh Tymon, Matt Grimes (c), Goncalo Franco, Ollie Cooper, Jisung Eom, Liam Cullen, Ronald
Subs:
Nathan Broome, Kristian Pedersen, Jay Fulton, Joe Allen, Zan Vipotnik, Florian Bianchini, Kyle

Cardiff City:
Ethan Horvath, Manolis Siopsis, Jesper Daland, Aaron Ramsey (c), Callum O'Dowda, Calum Chambers, Wilfried Kanga, Chris Willock, Alex Robertson, Yakou Meite, Perry Ng
Subs:
Jak Alnwick, Dimitrios Goutas, Anwar El Ghazi, Joel Bagan, Rubin Colwill, Ollie Tanner, Andy Ronomhota, Cian Ashford, Callum Robinson

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Swansea 1 (Cullen 10’) - Cardiff 1 (Robinson 79’)
It started off so well, Swans scoring early and dominating play. They should have been well ahead by half time but only had the one goal. The missed chances proved costly second half with the Cardiff subs outplaying the Swans subs to equalise late on and snatching the draw.
The Swans paid a high price for subbing their best players.

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The match report-

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rep...cardiff-city-1

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Sky Sports match highlights-

https://www.skysports.com/football/v...hip-highlights

[Estoban]

We should have sewn this game up by half time, Cardiff outplayed, so many half chances.
We paid the price second half, their better quality subs changed the game in their favour, our subs were poor and weakened us.
Ronald and Eom out of sorts, our best player Franco was subbed off. Abdulai is not a winger and was poor when he came on.

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Highlights

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/hig...cardiff-city-4

[Iolo]

Boys, we blew that match big time, should have won at a canter, match over by half-time such was our dominance.
Ronald poor today, shots and crosses over hit, and being dispossessed too easily. Eom mis-firing too. Subs did nothing when they came on.
Back to the drawing board on Tuesday at Fairwood, plus shot and crossing practice.