keith margam
Vital Football Legend
Our next opponents have a new manager in charge after ex-Swan Gary Monk became the latest casualty in a long line of failed managers at Sheffield Wednesday.
The highly experienced Tony Pulis, who hails from Newport, has taken over the reins there.
His first match in charge saw the Owls down to ten men after only 17 mins, Josh Windass sent off for a high tackle on Preston’s Joe Rafferty. It took Preston 48 mins to score the winning goal and it came as a huge relief after losing their previous 5 home matches.
Frankie McAvoy:
“It feels good to obviously win a home game, it was tough though, particularly when they go down to 10 men. It becomes difficult because they go to a back five with three in front of that and then the onus is on you to try and break them down. Thankfully we've won the game, I thought in the second half we totally controlled it."
Tony Pulis:
“There were good signs at times but when you go down to 10 men it's really difficult. The lads worked all week on certain things and it just goes out the window but you can't fault their effort.
They only had one shot on goal and that was their goal. There's one or two things that I'm disappointed with, we gifted them the goal, it wasn't something they created, but I think all of them gave a very honest performance."
And the reaction to Swans 1-0 win over Rotherham -
Steve Cooper:
"We scored a scruffy goal to be fair and to show the other side of the game in the second half, showing resilience and character and dealing with the set-pieces and having the kitchen sink thrown at us, I'm really happy with that. Also credit to the boys because our record after the international break hadn't been great, we do lose a lot of players to the international break. I am really pleased with the win as these are difficult games."
Paul Warne:
“In fairness to Swansea I thought they played really well and asked us a lot of questions and we didn't have the answers for everything. I thought our first-half performance was lacklustre, and it just wasn't us.
The joy of having five changes is good when things aren't going great, and it allowed us to make a couple of changes at half-time and then tweak the system.
We caused them more problems and on another day we might have got a penalty or a tap-in from the goalkeeper's drop, but Swansea could have scored more as well.
I'm not trying to sugarcoat it, they were the better team today and they get the three points."
On current form we should win but Championship matches are so hard to predict. Pulis’s teams of the past have been very solid defensively so we can expect a tight game at the Liberty on Wed night.
The highly experienced Tony Pulis, who hails from Newport, has taken over the reins there.
His first match in charge saw the Owls down to ten men after only 17 mins, Josh Windass sent off for a high tackle on Preston’s Joe Rafferty. It took Preston 48 mins to score the winning goal and it came as a huge relief after losing their previous 5 home matches.
Frankie McAvoy:
“It feels good to obviously win a home game, it was tough though, particularly when they go down to 10 men. It becomes difficult because they go to a back five with three in front of that and then the onus is on you to try and break them down. Thankfully we've won the game, I thought in the second half we totally controlled it."
Tony Pulis:
“There were good signs at times but when you go down to 10 men it's really difficult. The lads worked all week on certain things and it just goes out the window but you can't fault their effort.
They only had one shot on goal and that was their goal. There's one or two things that I'm disappointed with, we gifted them the goal, it wasn't something they created, but I think all of them gave a very honest performance."
And the reaction to Swans 1-0 win over Rotherham -
Steve Cooper:
"We scored a scruffy goal to be fair and to show the other side of the game in the second half, showing resilience and character and dealing with the set-pieces and having the kitchen sink thrown at us, I'm really happy with that. Also credit to the boys because our record after the international break hadn't been great, we do lose a lot of players to the international break. I am really pleased with the win as these are difficult games."
Paul Warne:
“In fairness to Swansea I thought they played really well and asked us a lot of questions and we didn't have the answers for everything. I thought our first-half performance was lacklustre, and it just wasn't us.
The joy of having five changes is good when things aren't going great, and it allowed us to make a couple of changes at half-time and then tweak the system.
We caused them more problems and on another day we might have got a penalty or a tap-in from the goalkeeper's drop, but Swansea could have scored more as well.
I'm not trying to sugarcoat it, they were the better team today and they get the three points."
On current form we should win but Championship matches are so hard to predict. Pulis’s teams of the past have been very solid defensively so we can expect a tight game at the Liberty on Wed night.
