Swansea v Leicester

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Swansea v Leicester Sat 4 Oct 15:00

Swans winning at Blackburn last night sets us up nicely for our home game on Saturday against The Foxes of Leicester.

Their latest manager is Spaniard Marti Cifuentes, ex-QPR head-coach, who took over from Ruud van Nistelrooy in July after their relegation from the Premier League.

Wrexham softened them up for us last night at the King Power Stadium with a creditable away draw. It was a good night for the Welsh internationals of both sides. Leicester took the lead through Jordan James (their only shot on target) with Wrexham’s Nathan Broadhead equalising. It was Leicester’s fourth consecutive draw.

Swans will need to double up and block their wide players and stop them crossing balls into the box, something Wrexham players did to good effect, but we are seemingly incapable of doing in games so far this season.
 
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Their season so far:

Oxford 2 - Leicester 2

Leicester 0 - Coventry 0

West Brom 1 - Leicester 1

Leicester 1 - Wrexham 1

Leicester 2 - Birmingham 0

Preston 2 - Leicester 1

Leicester 2 - Sheff Wed 1
 
Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux; Josh Key, Ben Cabango (captain), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon; Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco, Liam Cullen; Ronald; Jisung Eom; Žan Vipotnik.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jay Fulton, Malick Yalcouye, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Manuel Benson, Kaelan Casey, Zeidane Inoussa, Ethan Galbraith, Adam Idah.

Leicester City: Jakub Stolarczyk, Wout Faes, Jordan James, Abdul Fatawu, Harry Winks, Bobby Decordova-Reid, Patson Daka, Ricardo Pereira (captain), Jannik Vestergaard, Jeremy Monga, Luke Thomas.

Substitutes: Asmir Begovic, Caleb Okoli, Jordan Ayew, Hamza Choudhury, Julian Carranza, Oliver Skipp, Boubakary Soumare, Aaron Ramsey, Silko-Amari Thomas.
 
Swansea 1 (Idah pen 70’) - Leicester 3 (James 13’, Fatawu 77’, Vestergaard 85’)

Leicester gave us a harsh lesson today and look too good for the Championship, albeit this win today was against a side playing well below its potential and were cruelly exposed at times.

We were level on points for a long time but couldn’t find a killer punch. They were a class above and we were disorganised and wasteful in possession.

Sheehan’s tactics and team selection were poor. There were huge gaps in midfield. Galbraith not starting, Cullen was a waste of space and Key had another poor game yet keeps on getting picked, what’s wrong with Samuels-Smith. We play the ball back too many times, Key especially. Substitutions too late in the game. Eom played well and was subbed. Ronald did nothing but stayed on until near the end.

This squad is under performing with Sheehan so far, much more was expected.
 
A strange game as I didn’t think we were terrible but at the same time I struggle to see what we’re trying to do. Ultimately I think their quality showed but it’s disappointing to not pick up any points considering Leicester haven’t been amazing recently.
 
sit_down_jack said:
A strange game as I didn’t think we were terrible but at the same time I struggle to see what we’re trying to do. Ultimately I think their quality showed but it’s disappointing to not pick up any points considering Leicester haven’t been amazing recently.
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We've got to compete at 1-1. Leicester have drawn their last 4 in a row and not against all top sides either. After Vip's chance and then the pen, for the final 20 we showed nothing. We're at home and Leicester were nothing special, they just showed some superb individual quality to find the net. But we've desperately got to start creating better chances soon. We're relying on scraps.
 
VitalSwansea said:
We've got to compete at 1-1. Leicester have drawn their last 4 in a row and not against all top sides either. After Vip's chance and then the pen, for the final 20 we showed nothing. We're at home and Leicester were nothing special, they just showed some superb individual quality to find the net. But we've desperately got to start creating better chances soon. We're relying on scraps.
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Definitely, I remember being optimistic that we might win the game after Idah scores the pen but then nothing really happened. I think it’s a bit easy to say that all these players are new and should be given time, that is true but I think there’s enough talent in what we’ve seen so far to suggest that we can do better.

What is your opinion on the two 8 midfield system? I don’t think it works for the players we have available to us. O’Brien made that system work with his pressing and ball winning, without him I think we’re better off playing with a 10, maybe Widell, Eom or Galbraith.

I want it to work for Sheehan but I can’t see these owners waiting around if we continue to be so poor creatively. We’ll fall down the league as soon as we play a couple of good sides. Southampton and QPR coming up, can’t say I’m overly confident.
 
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