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Blackpool v Swans

keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Blackpool up next on Saturday at Bloomfield Road and there will be plenty of the Jack Army doing the 440 mile round trip and making a weekend of it.
Their head-coach is former Liverpool U-23’s head coach Neil Crtichley, appointed in March 2020. Blackpool were promoted back to the Championship last season via the League One play-offs after a six year absence.
Their main rivals are Preston, their grounds being only 17 miles apart.
Controversial owners the Oyston family, 32 years in control, sold out to Simon Sadler in 2019 after the club had gone into receivership.
The reverse fixture at the Swansea.com stadium last November was a 1-1 draw, Piroe scoring his 11th goal of the season after 35’. The Tangerines scored a late equaliser in the 86’ as Hamer could only punch the ball out from a corner for Anderson to fire home. Swans were left frustrated after two penalty appeals had been turned down by referee Keith Stroud for fouls on Laird.
Blackpool last 6 home:
W4 D0 L2 F11 A6
Swans last 6 away:
W1 D2 L3 F3 A10
For the Swans, we have to eradicate those heavy defeats if we are to be successful next season. The capitulation against Fulham was poor, even with ten men, gifting them such soft goals.
Twenty goals conceded in the five matches that stand out this season do not make good reading and falls way below the standards of previous seasons.
Bournemouth 4-0, Forest 1-4, Sheffield Utd 4-0, Stoke 3-0, Fulham 1-5.
A poor January Transfer Window didn’t help, with the incomings Fisher, Wolf, Burns and Ogbeta unsuccessful so far, the one exception being loanee Christie.
Splashing £400k on goalkeeper Fisher was a big mistake, he was no better than what we already had. Then £300k on an injured player who is still unfit to play?
 
The team today:
Swans: Andy Fisher, Korey Smith, Ben Cabango, Kyle Naughton, Cyrus Christie, Flynn Downes, Matt Grimes (c), Olivier Ntcham, Joel Piroe, Jamie Paterson, Michael Obafemi.
Subs: Ben Hamer, Jay Fulton, Kyle Joseph, Nathanael Ogbeta, Joel Latibeaudiere, Finley Burns, Cameron Congreve.
 
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Christie is back after missing the Fulham match, but Wolf not selected.. Ogbeta appears for the first time as sub.
 
Blackpool 1 - Swans 0
(Madine unmarked header from a corner after 4 mins.)
Wow! We had 76% possession!
One shot on target and lost again, what’s new.
Waiting to hear how good we were from RM.
 
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RM: "But we were so dominant. The performance was really good” “I am proud of what the players have given us”
 
After hammering Swansea in midweek Fulham could only draw 1-1 at lowly Barnsley yesterday with an 86’ equaliser from Harry Wilson saving them from defeat.
 
Not an excuse for poor defending but their centre-back 21 Ekpiteta has his arms around Grimes and Christie holding them back as the corner ball goes over the top of them to the consequently unmarked centre-forward 14 Madine. Ref just looks on and awards the goal.
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RM: "We have let ourselves down conceding a really poor early goal from someone we spoke about. We worked on avoiding a block and we have been blocked in the box, so it's unacceptable, the goal, really.”