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Blackburn v Swans

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Now let’s channel the frustration and anger from the Fulham match and the biased refereeing, and use it in a positive way against Blackburn on Saturday.
The team will not have arrived home from London until the early hours of Thursday morning. They will have to travel on Friday to Blackburn and overnight for Saturday’s match. Not ideal preparation in this crazy match scheduling of the Championship.
Will Cooper rest some of the players or go with the same team that have done so well recently.
We are still only 5 points from the play-offs with teams above us tripping up mid-week, it’s still all to play for.
 
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Blackburn last 6 home matches:
W2 D3 L1 F7 A4
26/12 Blackburn 1 - Birmingham 1
11/1 Blackburn 1 - Preston 1
28/1 Blackburn 2 - QPR 1
8/2 Blackburn 0 - Fulham 1
11/2 Blackburn 3 - Hull 0
26/2 Blackburn 0 - Stoke 0

Swans last 6 away matches LDLDDL
W0 D3 L3 F6 A11
26/12 Brentford 3 - Swans 1
12/1 Cardiff 0 - Swans 0
25/1 Stoke 2 - Swans 0
1/2 Preston 1 - Swans 1
14/2 Hull 4 - Swans 4
26/2 Fulham 1 - Swans 0
 
Garrick replaces Kalulu as the only change from the Fulham match:

Blackburn Rovers: Christian Walton, Ryan Nyambe, Adam Armstrong, Joe Rothwell, Sam Gallagher, Dominic Samuel, Amari'i Bell, Stewart Downing, Tosin Adarabioyo, Lewis Travis, Elliott Bennett (capt).
Subs: Jayson Leutwiler, Danny Graham, Bradley Johnson, Harry Chapman, Ben Brereton, Joe Rankin-Costello, John Buckley.

Swansea City: Freddie Woodman, Kyle Naughton, Joe Rodon, Ben Cabango, Jake Bidwell, Matt Grimes (capt), Jay Fulton, Conor Gallagher, Jordon Garrick, Andre Ayew, Rhian Brewster.
Subs: Erwin Mulder, Connor Roberts, Ben Wilmot, Yan Dhanda, Nathan Dyer, Aldo Kalulu, Liam Cullen.
 
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Celina still out with illness, and didn’t travel.
Ex-Swan Danny Graham on the subs bench, let’s hope he stays there.
 
Half time stats:
Possession: 54% - 46%
Shots: 5 - 2
On target: 1 - 1
Corners: 1 - 0
Fouls: 6 - 5
Cards: 0- 2Y
One shot on target each, both resulting in goals.
 
56’ sub Danny Graham on, oh, oh!
67’ Danny Graham misses a penalty! (Rodon foul on sub Brereton)
68’ Danny Graham hits the post!
 
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90’+5’ goal 2-2 Johnson (deflected shot!)
Here we go conceding again in injury time, why can’t we hold a lead?
FT 2-2 90’+8’
4 minutes first half, 8 minutes second half, total of 12 minutes extra time, are we now playing 100 + minute matches?
 
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Sad we couldn’t hold out for the win. We are 4 points behind 6th place Preston, we were so close to being only 2 points.
It feels like a loss, after having the lead for 47 mins of the second half.
What’s with the bookings, 8 yellow cards, 3 for them and 5 for us!
 
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Full time stats:
Possession: 54% - 46%
Shots: 15 - 9
On target: 5 - 3
Corners: 2 - 1
Fouls: 17 - 13
Cards: 3Y- 5Y
Att: 13,099
Ref: Peter Bankes
 
Mowbray:
“It didn't look like it was going to be our day and then a deflected Bradley Johnson goal. I'm happy enough with a point but not happy really because we have to win them games with our aspirations. We got a point closer because of the results above us so ok, just frustrated."
Cooper:
“It's not just the end of a tough game but a tough week. If there's any real frustrations from today it's that we didn't put the game to bed. Luck's not really falling on our side at the moment. It was always going to be a tough game anyway, Blackburn are hard to play against. To concede so late on when the players have given as much as they had it quite tough to take."
 
We’ve not had the best of luck this week with last minute goals, today a deflected shot deep into injury time, a bitter pill to swallow.
To get promotion you need to have that little bit of luck with you, not matter how good you are.
We have ten games left to turn it around.
 
Here are the 10 games left and 30 points to play for:
7/3 WBA (h)
14/3 M’Boro (a)
18/3 Luton (h)
21/3 Millwall (a)
4/4 S.Wed (h)
10/4 B’ham (a)
13/4 Leeds (h)
18/4 N.Forest (a)
25/4 Bristol City (h)
2/5 Reading (a)
 
Our last 3 away games:
Hull 95’ goal conceded = 2 points dropped
Fulham 94’ goal conceded = 1 point dropped
Blackburn 95’ goal conceded = 2 points dropped
Those 5 points would have put us 1 point clear in 6th place and a play off spot.
Why can’t we close games down in the last few minutes of a match?
Is it the manager and his tactics, young inexperienced players, wrong subs at the wrong time, sitting back on a lead and defending too deep inviting teams to attack us?
Whatever the problem is we are not learning from it, and it is costing us.
 
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