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Swansea City Fan Comments

Calvin Plummer

Vital Football Legend
Well forest haven't guaranteed a playoff spot yet so they will be up for it, going to be a difficult game, especially after the loss yesterday. Let's hope Cooper's motivational skills are better than his game management.

Must win or must sack game.

Forest wasting time from the off.

A point works for them with only 2 matches left after tonight.

Ayew being kicked off the park.

1-0 Fantastic left footer from Brewster!!

All over them. Deserved lead.

84% possession. Bloody hell we look outstanding.

1-1 Cracking hit by Ameobi but should never have got the room by Grimes and big Mike to get a shot off.

Cracking goal. 1-1.

Nice finish but VDH has to do better than that. First time they’ve been anywhere near our goal.

Lucky bastards. They've been humiliated then just one lucky bounce and a punt. From a totally shit player too. Sickening.

Pelanty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2-1 Ayew !!!!!!

Very soft penalty award that.

Very lucky. Ayew was fouled at least a foot outside the box then stops totally in his run for the pen (even takes a little step back).

Isn't that an illegal penalty? You're not allowed to stop like that.

2-1 Swans HT. Deserved (just).

I didn't think that was a foul and it was outside the box. Still, we were the better side over the half.

Florets lucky to still have eleven on the pitch.

Lot more urgency and intent about Forest 2nd half.

Amoeba equalizes again with a long-ranger. 2-2.

Not like he's already done it before...Close him down ffs.

Is that their second shot on target?

There's only been 4 shots on target in the whole game.

Coming up to 60 mins and we have to win. What subs is Cooper going to bring on?

Forest looking happy with the draw.

Wtf a straight red for a tackle in their half and we had another defender coming on the player before he crosses the half way line. Ref sucks.

It was very clumsy. Not the last man though.

Stamped on the back of his calf. Violent conduct anywhere on the pitch.

In the context of some of the tackles they have made that was a harsh red...ffs.

Srupid challenge, risking major injury on his achilles. He's a fecking idiot!

Not one attempt on goal in the 2nd half ffs!!!

They are a decent side and wouldn’t be up there if they weren’t.

Unfortunately Naughton had to go - studs down the calf miles from the ball.

Turning point was when Bidwell put the ball on a plate for Ayew to nod into the net, only for him to try and chest it down and not even get an attempt on goal. If we had scored at that point I think it would have sucked the oxygen out of Forest.

I remember in the home game against Forest how Sami Ameobi was their most dangerous player by far and they played entirely on the counter attack much like Leicester, using him as an outlet with his big striding pace. We gifted them the points that day with another late goal, though we played nowhere near as well as we played last night.

The ref was terrible last night. how many challenges from behind did Forest commit? the leading elbow of the player in the mask who thudded into Jay Fulton wasn't even yellow carded, and it was an extremely dangerous challenge. How the hell did Figuieredo stay on the field? second half their manager had obviously told his players to rough us up. There were some wild challenges, two footed lunges. How many times was Brewster brought down from behind or Conor Gallagher? Shockingly bad. Naughts mistimed his 'cynical, taking one for the team' foul. I don't see raking of studs on the player...He writhed on the floor like the rest of the Forest actors....as soon as the red card came out...He was up and sprinting. If he was raked with studs as has been said here, then he'd have been off the field. There is no protection to the calf from behind....the guy made a meal of it. the partisan shouting from the Forest bench was sickening. They got Nauts sent off.

Figueiredo the ref was generous not to red card him first time..........but how he ignored two further fouls by him is beyond belief (or normal for the ******) refs we get.

Forest looked ordinary.

As straight a red as you’ll see, player went passed him, Had a clear run ahead, just into our half right in front of the technical area, Kyle lunged at him from behind, caught his ankle/leg, no attempt to play the ball, he walked straight down the tunnel, Swans career over.

Compared to some of the stuff committed by Forest players it was relatively tame. Late, but nowhere near dangerous. A yellow would have been ample punishment.

We should have won this, Forest were gifted two goals, although the first was a good finish.


They also rated all the players from both teams:

Brice Samba 6.0
Carl Jenkinson 5.5
Tobias Figueiredo 5.6
Joe Worrall 7.0
Yuri Ribeiro 5.8
Ben Watson 6.5
Nuno da Costav6.1
Ryan Yates 6.5
Samba Sow 6.5
Sam Ameobi 8.8
Lewis Grabban 7.1
Adama Diakhaby 5.1
Michael Dawson 6.0
Joe Lolley 6.2
Tiago Silva 6.5

Ref 2.9
 
Cheers for that CP. After aging ten years watching the game it’s always funny to read. We are pretty good at what we do but the opposition really don’t seem to appreciate it..
 
They didn't think it was a pen either, that ref was probably the worst this season we could have had a player or two off as well. They aren't a bad side, a point was fine considering they tore us apart for 15 minutes.
 
Thanks CP, fans worldwide always seem to be the same, we were robbed, lousy ref, never a pen, and it goes on and on. But it always raises a smile when I read our match report on vital, it's no different.
 
Cheers CP

Like most, I thought the ref favoured them - woeful penalty decision and about the only thing he got right was Naughton's red.

Figgy could well have had 2 yellows and worryingly seemed far too willing to dive in.
 
Some fans watch a different game. Pen was outside the area. Ayew definitely stopped in run up, not hesitation. It was a stop. Figi’s booking was a good tackle but was two footed and not in control therefore yellow. Why go in with both feet? Next two fouls Figi fouls were pushing it and was very lucky not to get second. Naughton was a clear red. Even Naughton was heading down the tunnel before ref produced card. It was the niggly fouls in midfield that he missed which was disappointing. I was disappointed by ref’s performance but surprised by some supporters completely biased view.
 
Some fans watch a different game. Pen was outside the area. Ayew definitely stopped in run up, not hesitation. It was a stop. Figi’s booking was a good tackle but was two footed and not in control therefore yellow. Why go in with both feet? Next two fouls Figi fouls were pushing it and was very lucky not to get second. Naughton was a clear red. Even Naughton was heading down the tunnel before ref produced card. It was the niggly fouls in midfield that he missed which was disappointing. I was disappointed by ref’s performance but surprised by some supporters completely biased view.

Did he stop or stutter?
 
I felt he stopped. Was stationary. That is stopped.

He clearly stopped; there was a definite pause before taking the shot, which is now illegal.

That was after conning the referee into giving the penalty in the first place; Yates did not touch him, and Worrall ducked out of the way; he actually went to ground in the process of shooting.

He was hankering after giving them a penalty after the Figueredo challenge, which resulted in a joke of a booking.

The referee checked with his officials and when he could not give the penalty he booked Figueredo; the ball was there to be won, Figueredo slid in and won the ball.

The only offence the referee could give would have been studs showing which would have been a red; Figueredo slid in going away from the player which he is fully entitled to do, and is neither a foul or a card offence.

His challenge in the second half was a blatant booking but the referee bottled it after his initial mistake.

As OKD points out the only thing the referee got correct was their sending off.
 
Fig didn't mean to go in with 2 feet, he slipped and it looked like he lunged. Pen gets worse the more I see it, and he definitely stops not slows down he comes to a full stop.