keith margam
Vital Football Legend
Football’s a funny old game.
We recently suffered our heaviest defeat of the season, a 4-0 trouncing at Bournemouth, gifting them their best win of the season.
Bournemouth had previously lost 1-2 at home to Preston in their last match.
Yesterday, in the next game after playing us, they lost 3-2 at bottom club Derby. On Saturday Preston lost 1-2 at home to Cardiff.
In this unpredictable league, next match on Wednesday we travel to lowly Barnsley, who would be bottom of the table but for Derby’s points deduction.
Guess what, they’ve just got a new manager in place, Iranian born Sweden U-21’s coach Poya Asbaghi starts his new job today, and great timing for us as once again we face a team expecting “the new manager bounce”.
With 5 defeats in their last 6 matches they are in poor form. It all went downhill when head-coach Valerien Ismael left for West Brom in the summer, after taking Barnsley to the play-offs. Austrian Markus Schopp took charge, but with just 1 win in 16 matches his job became untenable.
Swans meanwhile, without suspended defender Ryan Bennett, could only draw at home to Blackpool last Saturday.
After once again fading badly in the second half of a match, question marks remain on the players being able to sustain the high fitness levels needed over 90 mins for Russell Martin’s football revolution.
The substitutions of Obafemi for leading scorer Piroe and Smith for midfield linchpin Ntcham didn’t work and made us less of a threat in the final stages.
With three games in a week again, it’s a balancing act to share the load and utilise the squad.
Having had a two week break our players lethargy second half was disconcerting, which post-match RM put down to possibly overtraining them during this period.
Hopefully we’ll get back on track with a couple of wins this week.
We recently suffered our heaviest defeat of the season, a 4-0 trouncing at Bournemouth, gifting them their best win of the season.
Bournemouth had previously lost 1-2 at home to Preston in their last match.
Yesterday, in the next game after playing us, they lost 3-2 at bottom club Derby. On Saturday Preston lost 1-2 at home to Cardiff.
In this unpredictable league, next match on Wednesday we travel to lowly Barnsley, who would be bottom of the table but for Derby’s points deduction.
Guess what, they’ve just got a new manager in place, Iranian born Sweden U-21’s coach Poya Asbaghi starts his new job today, and great timing for us as once again we face a team expecting “the new manager bounce”.
With 5 defeats in their last 6 matches they are in poor form. It all went downhill when head-coach Valerien Ismael left for West Brom in the summer, after taking Barnsley to the play-offs. Austrian Markus Schopp took charge, but with just 1 win in 16 matches his job became untenable.
Swans meanwhile, without suspended defender Ryan Bennett, could only draw at home to Blackpool last Saturday.
After once again fading badly in the second half of a match, question marks remain on the players being able to sustain the high fitness levels needed over 90 mins for Russell Martin’s football revolution.
The substitutions of Obafemi for leading scorer Piroe and Smith for midfield linchpin Ntcham didn’t work and made us less of a threat in the final stages.
With three games in a week again, it’s a balancing act to share the load and utilise the squad.
Having had a two week break our players lethargy second half was disconcerting, which post-match RM put down to possibly overtraining them during this period.
Hopefully we’ll get back on track with a couple of wins this week.