West Brom v Swansea

[jackaway]

West Brom v Swansea, Sat 29 Nov, 15:00
Vitor Matos has his work cut out to turn our players into winners. At the moment they are feeling sorry for themselves and have lost confidence. It showed clearly second-half after a bright start.
Derby, who had outmuscled us throughout, got a second goal and heads went down. There was no leader on the pitch to cajole the players and that has to be addressed.
The squad we thought was so strong at the beginning of the season, with all those ‘quality’ signings, was just a fallacy.
I hope we can sign a right back as a priority in January as that is our weak side. Whoever and how many players we sign, no more lightweight players please, as it’s demoralising seeing us getting bullied off the ball by big seasoned pros every match.
Turning to Saturday’s match and it’s one of the shorter journeys to West Brom.
We usually have good away support for this match and we need their help to start picking up points again.
We are only two points from the trap-door and it’s becoming crucial to start winning again.
Matos needs to find his best starting eleven and stick with them, none of this rotation nonsense every match because the players are tired. Find the most enthusiastic players in training, see who’s not pulling their weight in matches.
Good luck to the Swans!

[Estoban]

Pre-match press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0n_UWtLRM

[Estoban]

To turn this around we need to sort out our defending. No more wing-backs racing upfield and leaving us exposed at the back.
It’s all about defending until we sort out what way we want to play. We need to pick up points to move away from the bottom.

[Iolo]

Oxford beat Ipswich 2-1 last night and are now above us in the table.
Ironically, Swansea born Mark Harris scored the first and ex-Swans winger reject Przemysław Placheta the second.
Ipswich looked a shadow of the team that beat us convincingly 1-4 recently.
Oxford fought hard for every ball, maybe our lot could take some lessons from them.
We have a fight on our hands boys, we’ve got to stop the slump.
Are our players up for it? Didn’t look like it Tuesday night.

[Iolo]

West Brom predicted starting line-up
4-4-2
Griffiths
Styles - Mepham - Phillips - Campbell
Grant - Diakite - Mowatt - Johnston
Heggebo - Maja

[Iolo]

No idea what the Swans starting line-up will be but Matos has said he has no injury worries.
His coaching team are still waiting for work permits so Joe Allen and Leon Britton will continue to assist.
The team travelled up by coach yesterday ready for today’s 3pm kick-off.
The Jack Army will be out in force to cheer on the boys and a big away support is expected.

[Iolo]

Food for thought:
Swansea - one win in the last nine matches
West Brom - one win in their last seven matches

[jackaway]

Line-up:
Stamenic, Franco, Inoussa for Cullen, Ronald, Fulton

Swansea: Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango (c), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Marko Stamenuic, Goncalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Jisung Eom, Zeidane Inoussa, Zan Vipotnik

Subs: Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Melker Widell, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Liam Cullen, Ricardo Santos, Kaelan Casey, Adam Idah, Ronald

[jackaway]

West Brom
4-2-3-1
Griffiths
Gilchrist - Mepham - Phillips - Styles
Molumby - Mowatt
Johnston - Price - Iling-Junior
Heggebo
Subs:
Ahearne-Grant, Bany, Bielik, Campbell, Diakite, Dike, Maja, Taylor, Wildsmith

[jackaway]

West Brom 3( Heggebo 47’, 52’, Molumby 85’)
Swansea 2 (Vipotnik 1’, Galbraith 11’)
A second-half collapse of mega proportions by Swansea and the worst part was you just knew it would happen.
Three quality subs, Bielik, Campbell and Grant came on at the restart for the Baggies and within two minutes they’d scored through Heggebo. Five minutes later he got a second as Swansea disintegrated.
Chance after chance after chance went begging, it was so one sided it was embarrassing. Molumby finally got the winner and beat the outstanding Vigouroux.
26 shots, 10 on target, could have been a cricket score.
There’s only one way we are going with a gutless display like that.
Tonight we are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference after 5 straight defeats.