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Swans v Bournemouth

keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Two tough games coming up this week in this relentless schedule of fixtures, Bournemouth home and Cardiff away.
Unfortunately Swans key central defender Ryan Bennett is still out for the next two games, having picked up a hamstring injury in the Boro match. Another of our centre-backs Marc Guehi is a doubt after going off on Saturday with a head injury.
Bournemouth, currently second in the table, were recently relegated from the PL after five seasons. Eddie Howe their manager left by mutual consent, with long serving assistant Jason Tindall taking over.
There was a clear out of twelve players, selling Nathan Ake to Man City for £45m, Callum Wilson to Newcastle for £20m and Aaron Ramsdale to Sheff Utd for £18.5m, so no shortage of funds there.
Link to the Swans, their first team coach is Graeme Jones, ex-Swans assistant manager. Also ex-Welsh International Carl Fletcher is their U-21 coach.
Bournemouth surprisingly lost their last home match 2-3 to the strong away team Preston. It was only their second defeat of the season.
Ex-Swan loanee Sam Surridge scored one of the Bournemouth goals, and ex-Swan Scott Sinclair one for Preston.
Bournemouth bounced back in style a few days later by trouncing Barnsley at Oakwell 0-4, Surridge was on the scoresheet again.
They have a good spread of goals in the team with ex-Chelsea striker Dominic Solanke on six, ex-Brugge winger Arnaut Groenevelde on five, and ex-West Ham winger Junior Stanislas on four.
 
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Form Guide last 6 matches:

Swans WLWDWL F6 A4 10 Points
Swans 2 - Luton 0
Middlesboro 2 - Swans 1
Forest 0 - Swans 1
Swans 1 - Sheff Wed 1
Swans 1 - Rotherham 0
Norwich 1 - Swans 0

Bournemouth WWWDLW F17 A8 13 Points
Barnsley 0 - Bournemouth 4
Bournemouth 2 - Preston 3
Rotherham 2 - Bournemouth 2
Bournemouth 2 - Forest 0
Bournemouth 4 - Reading 2
Birmingham 1 - Bournemouth 3
 
Key defenders Bennett and Guehi out injured:

Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Kyle Naughton, Ben Cabango, Joel Latibeaudiere; Connor Roberts. Korey Smith, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Yan Dhanda; Jamal Lowe, Andre Ayew.

Substitutes: Steven Benda, Ryan Manning, Jay Fulton, Viktor Gyokeres, Wayne Routledge, Liam Cullen, Cameron Evans, Jordon Garrick, Kasey Palmer.

Bournemouth: Asmir Begovic, Steve Cook (captain), Lloyd Kelly, Chris Mepham, David Brooks, Dominic Solanke, Adam Smith, Lewis Cook, Junior Stanislas, Diego Rico, Phil Billing.

Substitutes: Mark Travers, Dan Gosling, Jefferson Lerma, Sam Surridge, Rodrigo Riquelme, Nnamdi Ofoborh, Jack Simpson, Gavin Kilkenny, Jaidon Anthony.
 
FT: 0-0
Swans stay 4th, Bournemouth stay top.
First three positions in the table are the three relegated PL teams.
It’s so tight at the top.
 
Jason Tindall:
“We're very frustrated, our performance deserved three points.
I felt we were in total control for 90 minutes and dominated the game. We created opportunities that we would have taken on another night.
At the time I thought the Latibeaudiere challenge on Brooks was a stonewall penalty and I still think the same thing after seeing it back.
Even their bench thought the same, they were saying it was a penalty after reviewing it back on the iPad so I'm really frustrated that decision didn't go for us”.
 
Swans 0 - Bournemouth 0
Possession: 42% - 58%
Shots: 6 - 13
On target: 1 - 1
Corners: 1 - 3
Fouls: 10 - 14
Cards: 1Y - 3Y
 
From the other side:
Bournemouth met a stubborn defence tonight. The Cherries dominated possession but just couldn't find big enough gaps to make a breakthrough. Jason Tindall's decision to leave out Sam Surrdige will be questioned, but Junior Stanislas had a good game and Bournemouth controlled the midfield. it was a frustrating night in front of goal but Bournemouth couldn't buy a clean sheet a few games ago. Going away from home and getting a point against a top-four team is no disgrace and Bournemouth sit top of the table at the moment.