Southampton v Swansea

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Southampton v Swansea Sat 18 Oct 12:30

It’s a welcome return to league action this Saturday as we face another recently relegated PL team in Southampton.

We meet up again with more ex-Swans, Ryan Manning, Nathan Wood and Flynn Downes.


Swans had ten players on International duty:

Lawrence Vigouroux - Chile

Ethan Galbraith - Northern Ireland

Adam Idah - Republic of Ireland

Zan Vipotnik - Slovenia

Burgess - Australia

Stamenic - New Zealand

Ben Cabango - Wales

Liam Cullen - Wales

Eom - S Korea

Yalcouyé - Ivory Coast


Saints had five players on International duty:

Jan Bednarek - Poland
Ryan Manning - Rep Ireland
Will Smallbone - Rep of Ireland

Shea Charles - Northern Ireland

Ronnie Edwards - England U-21’s


Comparing results so far this season:

Swans P9 W3 D3 L3 F10 A10 Pts12 LWDWDLDWL

Saints P9 W2 D5 L2 F11 A12 Pts11 WDLDDLDWD

Last time out Swans lost 1-3 at home to Leicester and the Saints drew 1-1 at Derby.

It must have been difficult for Sheehan and staff in training the last two weeks with half the squad missing. The returning players will be assessed for fitness after their globe trotting to be in contention for Saturday.

Last time we played at St Mary’s 23/24 season it was a 5-0 thrashing.

Our team that day: Rushworth, Wood, Cabango, Humphreys, Tymon, Fulton, Grimes, Lowe, Paterson, Yates, Cullen. Allen, Bolasie and Kukharevych came on as subs. Saints had 9 shots to 1 on target and 60% - 40% possession.

Manning and Downes played for Saints, Wood was still with us and played.
 
Cameron Burgess played the full match in Denver, Colorado last night USA 2 - Australia 1.
The game finished at 04:00 BST this morning (Colorado seven hours behind us).
The Swans leave for Southampton on Friday for the early kick-off.
A short window for him to get back and recover in time to play.
 
Saints out injured:

Centre-back Josh Quarshie - returned from international duty with hip injury

Striker Ross Stewart - hamstring injury

Ex-Swans: Wood plays, Manning, Downes subs

Saints line up:
Alex McCarthy, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Adam Armstrong (c), Ronnie Edwards, Leo Scienza, Nathan Wood, Cameron Archer, Caspar Jander, Shea Charles, Welington, Elias Jelert

Subs:
Gavin Bazunu, Ryan Manning, Flynn Downes, Jack Stephens, Finn Azaz, Tom Fellows, Ryan Fraser, Damion Downs, Jay Robinson


Swans at full strength, Eom and Cullen drop to the bench.

Swans:
Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango (c), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon, Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco, Ethan Galbraith, Ronald, Zeidane Inoussa, Zan Vipotnik

Subs:
Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Melker Widell, Malick Yalcouye, Jisung Eom, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Liam Cullen, Kaelan Casey, Adam Idah
 
All Southampton so far
8’ Tymon doesn’t stop the cross resulting in a corner headed over the bar
9’ Charles runs through and shoots wide
11’ Swans corner on the their left, Tymon takes, overhit, poor, headed away
13’ Tymon puts Inoussa through on the left, offside
14’ Saints corner headed away by Franco
16’ Inoussa through, Wood blocks the shot
19’ Armstrong shoots wide, deflection, corner, Burgess heads away, another corner
21’ Archer shoots wide
29’ Tymon beaten again, Armstrong shoots wide
30’ Scienza hits the post, Charles shoots wide from the rebound
 
33’ Stamenic booked
37’ Key beaten again, almost a goal
40’ Armstrong shoots straight at the goalkeeper
41’ Ronald nor Key can defend
41’ Key beaten again, another chance for Saints, Swans leading a charmed life
44’ Cabango booked, free kick tipped over the bar, corner headed straight at Vigouroux

HT: 0-0
How Swansea haven’t conceded I don’t know.
Swans sloppy defending, Saints 14 shots, 5 on target.
We are slow in the build up and getting dispossessed easily.
This is poor.
Sheer domination by Saints first half: Aerial duals won 87-13
 
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No changes for start of second half
49’ Armstrong scuffs his shot when well placed
49’ Vipotnik booked
50’ Sciensa fires over
53’ Galbraith shot blocked
62’ Vipotnik off, Idah on
 
71’
Jelert off, Fellows on
Archer off, Robinson on
Eom on, Galbraith off
Yalcouye on Inoussa off
Bit better from Swans second half
 
75’ Armstrong hits the post rebound Jelert misses open goal
All Saints again
78’ Charles shot saved
83’
Ronald off Fulton on
Stamenic off Casey on
 
89’ Cabango header straight at McCarthy from a free kick
Seven minutes injury time!
91’ Casey heads over from Eom cross
96’ Fulton booked
97’ Saints get a free kick out on the right from Eom foul - cleared, whistle goes

FT: 0-0 Phew!!

How wasn’t this another 5-0, sheer luck today
21 shots, 8 on target show Saints dominance
 
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Can’t help but feel a bit worried so far this season. We’re one of, if not the worst attacking sides in the league and we’ve been comfortably brushed aside by Leicester, who had struggled prior to playing us and now Southampton have battered us, although the point is welcome.

Our underlying data suggests a team that will be near the relegation spots eventually. It all just feels directionless and doesn’t feel like improvement is around the corner.
 
3 wins from 10 games, 10 goals scored, 10 conceded. Only one game where we have scored more than 1 goal, at bottom club Sheff Wed on 30 Aug

We are not doing any better than we did last season under Luke Williams after ten games.


This season after 10 games:

Pos13 PL10 W3 D4 L3 F10 A10 GD0 Pts13

Sat 18 Oct Southampton 0 - Swansea 0



Last season after 10 games:

Pos13 PL10 W3 D3 L4 F8 A7 GD1 Pts12

Sat 19 Oct Blackburn 1 - Swansea 0
 
Portsmouth showing us how to do it at Leicester tonight and look a good team. All over Leicester second half and have them rattled. Our loaned out Bianchini has come on for Pompey and looks much better this season. FT: 1-1
 
A dreadful performance. We looked really toothless and you can't even use the excuse that they're a relegated side that have spent millions - whilst that is true other teams have competed with them - Bristol City tonight have beaten them and they're below us in the table.

We didn't have a clue what to do in possession and Southampton's press and movement gave us a proper headache.

Worrying going forward and Sheehan has got to get a performance out of the team at home. I feel he needs at least a win and a draw from these next 2.
 
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