Swans v Brentford | Vital Football

Swans v Brentford

At last a home game and a chance to get some points. We seem to have forgotten how to win away from home with six straight defeats since our win at Reading on 1st Jan, three months ago.
Neither side are in form and both low scoring.
We have beaten Brentford twice this season including the cup game.
Let’s hope we can get a much needed win before facing tough tests against Middlesboro next Saturday and Stoke the following Tuesday, three home games in a row.
 
With the clocks advancing one hour on the weekend, the light nights and summer are coming. Its a new month, April, and the usual showers associated with it are predicted this week. After a nice spell of mild, sunny weather, my weather app says rain Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri.
It can’t be a home match without rain. My umbrella blew inside out and I had to dump it and got drenched walking to the ground for the Man City match.
We can only hope the team brush aside their miserable away form, sort out their defensive frailties, and replicate the attacking football they showed that their capable of last time out at the Liberty.
Three home games in a row and nine points on offer, let’s not waste the opportunity.
 
We are joint bottom with Birmingham in the Form Table with 3 points, based on the last 6 matches.
QPR are 18th in the Form Table, five places above us with 5 points in the last 6 matches and they’ve just sacked their manager.
 
Brentford must be fed up of playing us, now losing three times this season, and all high scoring games. With four matches in ten days, Potter dropped CCV and McBurnie to the bench, Routledge and Fulton returning.
We were ahead within the first minute, James dispossessed Dalsgaard and passed to Dyer who slotted home. James hit the crossbar before Dyer made it 2-0 in the 34th min, a long kick by Nordfelt over the Brentford defence and Dyer raced through to score. Just before the break Celina hit the bar from a free kick and Brentford must have been relieved to hear the half time whistle.
Brentford came more into the game second half but rarely threatened. Celina missed a chance one on one with the goalkeeper.
Then a Roberts shot came off the post and James hit the rebound home on 78 minutes to seal the win and cap another eye catching display
 
First win in four matches and winning in some style. Brentford couldn’t handle James, and Dyer had so much energy up front he was everywhere.
The team seemed fired up to put the unfair Forest defeat behind them, with a scintillating display of passing football as per Forest, but this time with goals.
It makes you wonder what we could have achieved if we’d strengthened the squad in January, instead of moving out three players.
 
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