Swansea v Plymouth

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Swansea v Plymouth Sat 3 Feb 15:00
As we move into February, and after a pretty disastrous Xmas and January results wise, it has to be asked, are we sleepwalking to relegation?
The January Transfer Window resulted in three wingers transferred in, Ronald Pereira Martins, Charles Sagoe Jr, and Przemysław Płacheta. We wanted pace in the side and now we’ve got it.
For me, I’m more concerned with our defending and the massive 22 goals conceded in the last 8 games, including the two Cup games.
Brandon Cooper, Nathan Tjoe-A-On, Nathanael Ogbeta, and Kristian Pedersen, four defenders, and all were shipped out in January.
No defenders incoming to bolster the back line, how weird.
Turning to today’s game at home to Plymouth, we must be down to the bare bones in defence with Harry Darling and Josh Key out injured.
We have defenders Naughton, Cabango, Wood, Humphreys, Tymon and Ashby left to choose from.
Plymouth are in better form than us, one defeat in their last 6 games, a narrow 2-1 defeat at Southampton:
23/12 Plymouth 3 - Birmingham 3
26/12 Cardiff 2 - Plymouth 2
29/12 Southampton 2 - Plymouth 1
1/1 Plymouth 3 - Watford 3
13/1 Huddersfield 1 - Plymouth 1
20/1 Plymouth 3 - Cardiff 1
New head-coach Luke Williams will be looking for his first league win.
If he continues with the kamikaze tactics used so far of playing a high line leaving us wide open to the counter-attack and passing out from the back then I can see another defeat on the cards.

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Luke Williams pre-match -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etZ0wq...ature=emb_logo

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Swansea:
Carl Rushworth, Jay Fulton, Ben Cabango, Matt Grimes (c), Jerry Yates, Jamie Paterson, Josh Tymon, Nathan Wood, Kyle Naughton, Ollie Cooper, Ronald
Subs: Andy Fisher, Joe Allen, Przemyslaw Placheta, Charlie Patino, Mykola Kuharevich, Liam Cullen, Charles Sagoe Jr, Bashir Humphreys, Filip Lissah

Plymouth:
Conor Hazard, Bali Mumba, Ryan Hardie, Morgan Whittaker (c), Mickel Miller, Alfie Devine, Lewis Gibson, Darko Gyabi, Brendan Galloway, Ashley Phillips, Adam Fordham
Subs: Callum Burton, Lind Sousa, Julio Pleguezuelo, Callum Wright, Adam Randell, Ben Waine, Matthew Sorinola, Caleb Roberts, Freddie Issaka

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Swans fans of a nervous disposition read no further.
This was another sh-t show of a performance, a shaky defence as usual but this time with plenty of possession and plenty of opportunities to score but chance after chance was squandered.
The result was we couldn’t score against one of the leakiest defences in this division and gave them their first away win of the season.
To rub it in ex-Swan Whittaker scored the winner in the 18th minute.
Five points away from the relegation places and with new head-coach Williams yet to win a game, be very worried.

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Match report


https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rep...mouth-argyle-1

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Match highlights:

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

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Reaction

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=80h9C_RyzcQ

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Extended highlights

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8YBDg...ature=youtu.be

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Whittaker unmarked to score the only goal, unbelievable.
It looks as if we are being dragged into a relegation fight. Another wasted transfer window as we bring in three wingers, what are they thinking?
We are down to the bare bones with defenders and we let Pederesen go out on loan to a rival Championship club that we could be in the relegation mix with?
I don’t think we’d have scored if they’d played another 90 minutes. Yates £2.5m they’re having a laugh.
Where was the big striker Kukharevych? Twiddling his thumbs on the bench when we were crying out for someone to get on the end of all those crosses into the box. Instead we had the diminutive Yates trying to outjump their big defenders.
You’ve got to laugh or you’d cry at the mismanagement of it all.

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How many chances wasted yesterday against an average Championship team that had forgotten how to win away from home.
The game was crying out for a decent striker with Yates failing yet again up front.
What has Kukharevych got to do to get game time. All those crosses from Ronald wasted.
Williams coming in has made us worse than under Duff, we are a shambles since he took over.
His mismanagement highlights what a good job Sheehan did when he was caretaker.