keith margam
Vital Football Legend
Swans v Blackburn Sat 5 Feb 17:30
Just what we do not need at this time. Top of the form charts over 10 games and second in the table Blackburn arrive on Saturday to play us in front of the Sky Sports cameras.
Last time out they drew 0-0 at Luton, where they were without 20 goal striker Ben Brereton Diaz, and striker Sam Gallagher went off with concussion at half-time.
Not that we aren’t capable of holding Blackburn. We went to QPR and held them to a draw and dropping their first points in 6 games, so there is hope.
In the reverse fixture last August, RM’s first game in charge, we lost 2-1 with the above two strikers scoring one apiece.
With 72% possession, Jamie Paterson scored on his debut, but we missed a handful of chances to equalise (sound familiar?).
Blackburn had won their first opening fixture in 10 years and Tony Mowbray said after the match -
“For us we're a young team, energetic, athletic and we tried to play on the front foot and take it off them. I felt we should have been in front by more than one goal at half-time and we created enough opportunities to not be hanging on at the end.
It shouldn't have been as close as that but they're a good side. We take the points and move on.”
The team that day -
Benda, Cabango, Bennett, Latibeaudiere, Naughton, Paterson, Bidwell, Grimes, Smith, Cullen, Lowe.
Just what we do not need at this time. Top of the form charts over 10 games and second in the table Blackburn arrive on Saturday to play us in front of the Sky Sports cameras.
Last time out they drew 0-0 at Luton, where they were without 20 goal striker Ben Brereton Diaz, and striker Sam Gallagher went off with concussion at half-time.
Not that we aren’t capable of holding Blackburn. We went to QPR and held them to a draw and dropping their first points in 6 games, so there is hope.
In the reverse fixture last August, RM’s first game in charge, we lost 2-1 with the above two strikers scoring one apiece.
With 72% possession, Jamie Paterson scored on his debut, but we missed a handful of chances to equalise (sound familiar?).
Blackburn had won their first opening fixture in 10 years and Tony Mowbray said after the match -
“For us we're a young team, energetic, athletic and we tried to play on the front foot and take it off them. I felt we should have been in front by more than one goal at half-time and we created enough opportunities to not be hanging on at the end.
It shouldn't have been as close as that but they're a good side. We take the points and move on.”
The team that day -
Benda, Cabango, Bennett, Latibeaudiere, Naughton, Paterson, Bidwell, Grimes, Smith, Cullen, Lowe.