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Sheff Wed v Swansea City

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keith margam

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Form Guide last 6 league matches:
Sheff Wed: W2 D3 L1 F4 A5 Pts9 (LWWDDD)
Swansea: W2 D2 L2 F7 A8 Pts8 (DWDLWL)

Last time out:
Rotherham 2 - Sheff Wed 2
Leeds Utd 2 - Swansea 1
 
Last time we played Sheff Wed was on 15 Dec at the Liberty, scoreline 2-1.
Celina scored one goal and made the other for Routledge after coming on as substitute.

On 21 Dec, a few days later, their Dutch manager Jos Luhukay was sacked by Sheffield Wednesday after a run of only 1 win and 7 defeats in 10 games, with the team sitting 18th in the table. He had been there for 11 months after taking over from Carlos Carvalhal.

The very experienced Steve Bruce is their new manager, appointed on 1 Feb, after being fired by Aston Villa last October during a bad run of form.
Bruce had taken Villa to a promotion play off final at Wembley last May only to lose out to Fulham. He is only the second manager after Danny Wilson to have managed both Sheffield clubs.
 
Improving news on the injury front.
Wayne Routledge, Declan John, and Nathan Dyer are back in training this week and are available for the Sheffield Wednesday match.
Leroy Fer needs another week and could be back for Bolton.
 
Wednesday will be without Fernando Forestieri for the match as the forward serves a one-match ban for being sent off in last weekend’s South Yorkshire derby against Rotherham United.
Winger George Boyd is unwell and likely to miss the clash.
Bruce has also revealed he’s going to have Tom Lees back.
Jordan Thorniley is doubtful with concussion from a head injury suffered in last weeks match.
 
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keith margam said:
Wednesday will be without Fernando Forestieri for the match as the forward serves a one-match ban for being sent off in last weekend’s South Yorkshire derby against Rotherham United.
Winger George Boyd is unwell and likely to miss the clash.
Bruce has also revealed he’s going to have Tom Lees back.
Jordan Thorniley is doubtful with concussion from a head injury suffered in last weeks match.
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Good news for us all round. Forestieri a key player for them and we've got McBurnie recovered from illness and Routledge back in training. Hopefully John is available again to get some balance in the back and Grimes is in midfield. On paper we should win this but they'll be a better side under Bruce and even before sacking their manager, we weren't great against them at home and needed some celina magic to get us the win.
 
After the Lord Mayors Show, FT 3-1, relegation form result.
If there’s was doubt, any remote chance of a play off spot has just been blown.
Wednesday 7 goals in the last 6 games, then 3 in 45mins, embarassing.
 
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36%- 64%. You can have all the possession in the world, it means nothing, and doesn’t win matches. Pass sideways and back - caught in possession, goalkeeper plays it on the floor out from the back - caught in possession.
Play the second choice weak on crosses goalkeeper to try and be fair, and what do you expect.
We had one corner throughout the match, unbelievable.
 
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We’re on a bad run away from home, three consecutive defeats, 2 goals for 7 against, and first half at Wednesday this afternoon the worst performance of the season. This wasn’t the plan Mr Jenkins, you said we’d sold all those players to get promotion this season?
 
Any team that plays with a high press nullifies our passing game, and blocks us passing out from the back so we are under pressure in our own half continuously. Also we are too lightweight, we get bullied of the ball. This is all well known but we continue with the same old tactics.
 
I can’t understand why we persist with playing out from the back when the opposition have found a way to negate it with a high press.
Potters reaction is to blame the players, and the captain VdH also blames the players, so who is right.
We can’t continue conceding goals and competing for only half of a match.
 
Great analysis Kev, thanks for explaining it to us.
Maybe you can show Potter and the team where they’re going wrong as they keep on making the same mistakes!
 
keith margam said:
I can’t understand why we persist with playing out from the back when the opposition have found a way to negate it with a high press.
Potters reaction is to blame the players, and the captain VdH also blames the players, so who is right.
We can’t continue conceding goals and competing for only half of a match.
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Baffles me Keith, it was obvious it wasn't working and we changed nothing. Never went direct and pushed our forwards further to push them back, it was all in our own half. Only reason we got further forward in 2nd half is because they dropped deeper to defend their 3 goal lead. We had nobody on the bench to change the game for us either.
 
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