Video Analysis: Swansea City 2-0 Bolton Wanderers

[SwansAnalytics]

Some quick video clips to highlight some key aspects of play during Saturday's 2-0 home win against Bolton:

So this is started off from a tweet about balance across the pitch and not having more than 2 players in each corridor:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1103716349409402880

 

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Far too often this season, Swansea have too many players in a small wide area of the pitch and have conceded goals as a result from it:

Example in previous post at Bristol City and another against Aston Villa at home:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1103717037447229445

 

[SwansAnalytics]

Here's a better video example of this against Bolton as we have 5 players all very close to each other in a wide area:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1103724437147451392

 

[SwansAnalytics]

Our better play came from scenarios where we weren't congested close together in a wide area but often our final ball or decision let us down:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1103725762526482432

 

[SwansAnalytics]

Bolton focused on tightly pressing the attacker receiving the ball often in wide/inside channel. They won it plenty of times in these areas but never made use of it on the counter:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1103734326242566144

 

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In the second half, we tried to avoid losing possession in these areas by playing first time forward passes:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1103734816682528769

 

[SwansAnalytics]

Lastly, our slow play. Here's one example of not using the space available to us, no rush whatsoever and so slow that we allow Bolton to get back into their defensive shape:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1103736912341278720

 

[keith margam]

Thanks for that Kevin, very interesting.
You should get a job on the Swans coaching staff!!