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Swans v Birmingham

keith margam

Vital Football Legend
It was another poor performance last Tuesday night where we were staring defeat in the face against struggling bottom club Peterborough until we recovered and scored some late goals.​
Next up is Birmingham City at the Swansea.com stadium on Saturday. Nicknamed the Bluenoses, the club was formed as Small Heath Alliance in 1875, eventually changing their name to the present one in 1943.​
The reverse fixture at St Andrews last October ended in a 2-1 defeat with our old adversary Troy Deeney scoring one of the goals and creating the other. Swans had one shot on target, Obafemi scoring our solitary goal.​
Last Tuesday Birmingham lost 0-2 at home to Middlesborough with zero shots on target and manager Lee Bowyer apologised to fans for the performance not being good enough.​
Swans last 6 home LWWLLW​
Blues last 6 away LDLDLW​
 
The teams:​
Swans: Andy Fisher, Ben Cabango, Kyle Naughton, Finley Burns, Cyrus Christie, Matt Grimes (c), Olivier Ntcham, Hannes Wolf, Jamie Paterson, Joel Piroe, Michael Obafemi.​
Subs: Ben Hamer, Jay Fulton, Korey Smith, Kyle Joseph, Nathanael Ogbeta, Joel Latibeaudiere, Cameron Congreve.​
Birmingham: Neil Etheridge, Maxime Colin, Marc Roberts, Tahith Chong, Scott Hogan, Gary Gardner (c), Juninho Bacuna, Jordan Graham, Onel Hernandez, Ivan Sunjic, Nico Gordon.​
Subs: Zack Jeacock, Ryan Woods, Taylor Richards, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Jeremie Bela, Jordan James, Marcel Oakley.​
 
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FT: 0-0​
Flynn Downes out injured, Jamie Paterson injured in the warm-up.​
Finley Burns stepped in and was subbed at half time with Joel Latibeaudiere after their pacey winger Chong gave us the runaround first half.​
It was one match too far for the sluggish, travel weary Swans today as they faced a lowly and out of form Birmingham.​
The Blues missed two easy chances first half and several second half, of which they dominated.​
How they didn’t win by 3 or 4 goals was down to their poor finishing and bad luck when they hit the bar. We created almost nothing, our football was so boring and it was embarrassing to watch our team being outplayed.​
Where we go from here I don’t know. We are not improving and today we created very little at home against a team below us in the table and it is not acceptable.​
 
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Surprise, surprise, in this topsy-turvy Championship, where any one team can beat the other. Peterborough went and won 1-3 at promotion chasing QPR yesterday to lift themselves off bottom spot and got their first win in 16 league games.