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Swans v Bristol City

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
The truth is we do not know what to expect from this side next.
There have been highs and lows but mostly lows this season.
Bristol City on Sunday, at home, and we don’t know which Swans team will turn up.
The team that succumbed so easily to an average Stoke side, who had lost four of their previous six home games, or the team that battled so hard to beat second in the table Blackburn, who had only lost once in their previous fourteen games.
We know that Manning will return, that Bennett is suspended and Naughton and Ogbeta are still injured so we are pretty thin on the ground numbers wise, especially with ten players having departed in the transfer window.
While we were getting thumped by Stoke on Tuesday night, Bristol beat Reading 2-1 at Ashton Gate on Wednesday night.
Last 6 games:
Swans WDLLWL
Bristol LWLDLW
Swans last 6 home DLLWLW
Bristol last 6 away LDLLDL
 
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We have quite a substantial player connection with Bristol City, having three of their ex-players on our books.
Korey Smith 2014-2020 Bristol City
Jamie Paterson 2016-2021 Bristol City
Liam Walsh 2017-2021 Bristol City (on loan to Hull)
We almost had another Bristol player Nahki Wells in the Transfer Window last month, but their manager Nigel Pearson blocked the move after stating that he wouldn’t help a rival club.
 
Head Coach Russell Martin stated after the Stoke match that the Swans entourage would move on to the FA’s St. George’s Park Football Centre, home base of England’s national teams, in nearby Burton-on-Trent.
They’ll stay at the integral 4 star Hilton Hotel with Health Club and Spa, going through a recovery programme at the Centre, before returning to Swansea on Friday.
The Centre has 14 world class pitches, a full size indoor 3G pitch and state of the art facilities, coaching, courses, and is the ultimate training and rehabilitation hub.
So will all this make us play better on Sunday, we can but hope!
 
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The goals have dried up!
Not that there were many to begin with, but two goals scored in our last six matches is not good enough.
Luckily those two goals gave us two 1-0 wins and 6 points or we’d be up the creek without a paddle.

Last 6 matches:
Swans W2 D1 L3 F2 A6
Robins W2 D1 L3 F11 A16
 
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Swansea 3 (Obafemi 54’, Christie 79’, Christie 94’)
Bristol C 1 (Wiemann 42’)

Swans: Andy Fisher, Ben Cabango, Finley Burns (Ntcham 75’), Ryan Manning, Cyrus Christie, Flynn Downes, Matt Grimes (c), Hannes Wolf, Jamie Paterson (Smith 90’), Joel Piroe, Michael Obafemi (Latibeaudiere 85’)
Subs: Ben Hamer, Jay Fulton, Korey Smith, Olivier Ntcham, Kyle Joseph, Yan Dhanda, Joel Latibeaudiere.
 
Poor first half stray passes, passing back all the time, caught in possession, we’re used to it now.
The inevitable goal came from a dispossession, quick break, ball over the top for Semenyo to run on to (looked offside from where I was sitting), pass to Wiemann who fired home.
Second half we were better and finally started scoring goals and deserved the win.
Here’s the match report:

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/report-swansea-city-3-bristol-city-1
 
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Awful first half and an excellent comeback but one I never saw coming. Some promising play mixed with some frustrating play, the usual loose passes at the back. But nevertheless 3 goals and a much needed confidence boosting win before going into some tough games.
 
Our players performance in Martin’s system reminds me of the words in a nursery rhyme about a little girl. Substitute singular for plural and it’s “when they were good they were very very good but when they were bad they were horrid”. That sums us up well, we saw bits of both yesterday.
Whether this rigid system of play can be perfected with unsuitable players is in doubt. It has to be flexible to work and Martin is not flexible in how he wants the team to play.
 
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