Blackburn v Swansea

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Blackburn v Swansea Tue 30 Sep 19:45

It’s the second match coming up of a trio of matches this week, which precedes another International break. This time we play the Rovers and we need points on the board to halt our slide down the table after another home draw and another win thrown away with sloppy defending.
Late goals conceded in the last three games is becoming a habit and it’s not only the full-backs at fault. Yesterday it was 6’ 4” Burgess out-jumped by 6’ 3” Coburn for the headed goal, the week before it was 6’ 2” Cabango out-jumped by 6’ 2” Dykes for the headed goal.

Valerian Ismael’s Rovers lost 3-0 on Saturday to Championship newcomers Charlton. The previous Saturday their home game against Ipswich was abandoned with ten minutes to go due to heavy rain with them leading 1-0 and Ipswich down to ten men after a sending-off.
The EFL Board have ruled that they have to replay the whole match 11 v 11.

With two wins and four defeats from their six matches so far, Blackburn haven’t had the best of starts. Their two wins have been away, 1-0 at Watford and 3-0 at Hull. Two defeats at home, 1-2 to Birmingham and 0-2 to Norwich.

Swans have won only once at Ewood Park in the last six games we’ve played there. It’s about time we started evening things up with a win on Tuesday night.
 
Swans: Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango (c), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Manuel Benson, Zeidane Inoussa, Zan Vipotnik

Subs: Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Malick Yalcouye, Jisung Eom, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Liam Cullen, Kaelan Casey, Adam Idah, Ronald


Blackburn: Balazs Toth, Ryan Alebiosu, Yuri Ribeiro, Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Sondre Tronstad, Todd Cantwell (c), Andri Gudjohnsen, Lewis Miller, Sean McLoughlin, Ryan Hedges, Ryoya Morishita

Subs: Aynsley Pears, Harry Pickering, Augustus Kargbo, Sidnei Tavares, Dion De Neve, Scott Wharton, Axel Henriksson, Yuki Ohashi, Kristi Montgomery
 
1-0
27’ Cantwell - another soft goal conceded, weak header beats Vigouroux, wide open on the wings again for the cross.
 
40’ Burgess heads wide from a free kick, should have done better.

1-1
44’ Franco - Tymon high cross from the left out to Franco on the right of goal, Franco excellent first time shot top left hand corner.

HT: 1-1
Not much action in this match
Inoussa shot saved by Toth
Galbraith shot was well saved by Toth
 
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50’ all Blackburn so far second-half
52’ Vigouroux full stretch save from Cantwell
54’ Blackburn dominance continues
55’ Ronald on Benson off, Eom on Inoussa off
61’ Cullen on Galbraith off, Idah on Vipotnik off
 
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1-2
66’ Cullen left footed shot from Idah cross, the two subs link up!

71’ Hedges off so no ex-Swan to score against us tonight
 
80’ yet another cross not stopped, great one handed save by Vigouroux
82’ dangerous times here as Blackburn press hard, as another cross comes in
83’ off side relieves the pressure
84’ Fulton on Stamenic off
86’ penalty shout not given, Burgess on Cantwell
5’ added time

FT: 1- 2 phew, that was hard
 
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Good that we got an away win. I think that needs to be taken into account. Also nice to see someone not names Ronald or Vipotnik on the score sheet and for a tactical sub that led to a change in system (even if only slightly) and a goal coming from. But it's worrying how little chances we seem to create and how vulnerable we look being attacked on the wings
 
I missed the first 25-30 of the first half but we looked very poor until we made the changes. I was surprised that either side had scored before the break.

It was a poor performance, we again created very little, 8 touches in their box in the whole game and have somehow managed to score twice.

Need a big improvement on Saturday against Leicester
 
But saying that, we clearly have a lot of potential in the side. Our goal scoring efficiency is top notch, we just need to take the breaks off
 
The Blackburn players who stood out and caused us the most problems:

Number 2 right-back Ryan Alebiosu

Number 10 attacking-midfielder Todd Cantwell
 
seagullswan said:
But saying that, we clearly have a lot of potential in the side. Our goal scoring efficiency is top notch, we just need to take the breaks off
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Sheehans use of Galbraith at the minute is horrendous. To not have him involved in the build up is complete negligence. Don’t really know what Josh Key needs to do to be dropped (or even subbed) at the minute either. Him and Ronald has never really worked on that side, skillsets are way too similar
 
Galbraith, let's face it, has been well off it the last few games. All this talk of being a £30m player one day is quite amusing.

I also saw people suggest Burgess is an upgrade on Darling; hilarious.
 
Gaaareth_90 said:
Galbraith, let's face it, has been well off it the last few games. All this talk of being a £30m player one day is quite amusing.

I also saw people suggest Burgess is an upgrade on Darling; hilarious.
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Galbraith not performing is down to the manager. Having him as an advanced #8 is just bad management. Ideally you switch to a double pivot with him and Stamenic, if he’s insisting on a single pivot though then he has to be right back, this would get rid of Key which would get the best out of Ronald too.
 
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