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Swansea v Luton

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Swans v Luton 20 Aug 2022 15:00
With one win in the last nine home matches if you include the back end of last season, our poor home form has carried over into this season.
Two home matches so far, five goals conceded.
There was much to admire in the way we played against Millwall.
It looked as if we’d turned the corner form wise until another late defensive collapse. Once the substitutions were made and our formation changed the game started to swing in Millwall’s favour, two own goals under pressure, and all the earlier good work was ruined.
The same weaknesses apparent, wide open on the flanks, and now Latibeaudiere out injured long term. We are in urgent need of wing-backs/full-backs. Recent loan signing Sorinola is not the answer, nor is Ogbeta who can’t even impress in the U-23’s.
On to the next match this Saturday, and it’s at home to the Hatters of Luton Town and their obnoxious Cardiff supporting Welsh Manager Nathan Jones, who did a merry jig when they won here 0-1 last season with a late goal from sub Harry Cornick.
This season they are not in very good form with only a creditable draw at Burnley standing out so far. They, like Swansea, were beaten by lower league opposition in the EFL Cup, and ominously for us are still looking for their first win of the season.
30/7 Luton 0 Birmingham 0
6/8 Burnley 1 Luton 1
9/8 Luton 2 Newport 3
13/8 Luton 0 Preston 1
16/8 Bristol C 2 Luton 0
 
Okay, last season is done but let’s look at the results.
One win in the last 11 matches including the end of last season and the Cup game this season.
W1 D6 L4 F17 A26
You can see below where we lose or draw matches through conceding goals second half if you compare HT to FT.

D Swans 1 - Barnsley 1 (0-0)
D Reading 4 - Swans 4 (1-3)
D Swans 1 - Boro 1 (0-0)
D Swans 3 - Bournemouth 3 (2-0)
L Forest 5 - Swans 1 (1-1)
L Swans 0 - QPR 1 (0-0)

D Rotherham 1 - Swans 1 (1-1)
L Swans 0 - Blackburn 3 (0-1)
L Oxford 5 - Swans 3 (0-2)
W Blackpool 0 - Swans 1 (0-0)
D Swans 2 - Millwall 2 (2-0)

We can’t see games out. Are the substitutions part of the problem, why can’t some of our players play for 90 mins, do we lack the fitness or guile needed to play Martin’s system, do we lack concentration, do certain players panic under pressure, do we lack leadership on the field of play? Or realistically are we just not good enough?
 
Today’s team:

Swans: Andy Fisher, Nathan Wood, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Matty Sorinola, Joe Allen, Matt Grimes (c), Ryan Manning, Olivier Ntcham, Joel Piroe, Michael Obafemi.
Subs: Steven Benda, Jay Fulton, Liam Cullen, Kyle Naughton, Ollie Cooper, Josh Thomas, Cameron Congreve.
 
Swans 0 - Luton 2 (Campbell 14, Morris 72’)
75%-25% possession, 2 shots on target- 5 shots on target
Another weak, disjointed, clueless performance.
Outplayed throughout, maybe we should have asked League 2 Newport County players to play instead of ours, they beat Luton at home in the Cup the other day.
First win of the season for Luton and they played out of their skins to get it. Mind you they didn’t have to play that well to beat our lot, slow like robots, no movement, no creativity, no clue how to break down Luton, no will to win, the boos at the end said it all.
One win in 12 games, very sad.
 
Eleven players discarded as unable to fit into “the system”
Bennett, Fulton, Benda, Walsh, Ogbeta, Joseph, Whittaker, Cullen, Garrick, B.Cooper, Williams.
Sorinola, Fisher, Ogbeta, Wood, brought in but no better than what we already have.
Wolf, Christie, Downes, gone and a big miss this season.
 
I lost count of the number of crosses into their box gobbled up by their giant defenders yet we kept on doing it.
Same the other end, so what was the game plan?
We had nobody out wide who could beat a man until Congreve came on, Sorinola ineffective and a waste of a loan slot.
 
Piroe was going through the motions and ineffective, his weak header straight to the keeper when unmarked on goal was only our second and final shot on target throughout the match.
 
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