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WBA v Swansea

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
The next match after the two week International break is West Brom at the Hawthorns on Saturday October 1st.
There will be seven matches squeezed into October and four in the first two weeks of November before another break for the World Cup in this crazily disruptive season.
Steve Bruce has been the Baggies manager since last February after leaving Newcastle, and replaced previous incumbent Valerie’s Ismael
The draw specialists of the division, they have drawn 7 of their 10 matches so far, with only one win and two losses they are two points behind us in 21st position in the table.
There have been six arrivals, two that cost, midfielder Jason Molumby from Brighton for 900k, and centre-forward Brandon Thomas-Asante from Salford for 300k, the others were free transfers.
Last time out they drew 1-1 at Norwich, who had won their last six matches. Norwich had a contentious second half equaliser and Bruce said after the match “We've played ten and drawn seven. Five or six of them I could have said, including today, we should've won. We've had more big decisions go against us. It's handball for their goal, probably their only shot on target in the second half.”
For the Swans they’ll be looking to build on their 3-0 home win against Hull and hope it will be the turning point of their season after a less than impressive start. With an improvement in form recently, Piroe scoring three goals in the last four matches, and Obafemi out of the Naughty Corner, optimism is high that we’ve turned the corner.
 
Luke Cundle makes his full debut after his sub appearance and goal last match against Hull. Joe Allen not risked after just recovering from a hamstring injury. Latibeaudiere is welcomed back and on the bench after his dislocated shoulder injury.

The teams:

Swans: Steven Benda, Nathan Wood, Kyle Naughton, Ben Cabango, Matty Sorinola, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (c), Ryan Manning, Luke Cundle, Ollie Cooper, Joel Piroe.

Subs: Andy Fisher, Harry Darling, Michael Obafemi, Olivier Ntcham, Armstrong Oko-Flex, Joel Latibeaudiere, Fin Stevens.

WBA: David Button, Darnell Furlong, Conor Townsend, Dara O'Shea, Tom Rogic, Jake Livermore (c), Grady Diangana, Erik Pieters, Jed Wallace, John Swift, Brandon Thomas-Asante.

Subs: Alex Palmer, Matty Phillips, Jayson Molumby, Martin Kelly, Karlan Grant, Adam Reach, Okay Yokuslu.
 
HT: 0-1
FT:
WBA 2 - Livermore 48’, Diangana 65’, Grant pen miss 85’ (soft penalty award)
Swans 3 - Sorinola 6’, Ntcham 71’, Obafemi 89’

See-Saw second half with West Brom going two goals to one up before subs Ntcham and Obafemi turned the game.
We know what Ntcham is capable of and today he came on and scored a goal and then the assist for the Obafemi goal.
A welcome away win that lifted us to 10th spot.

Swans substitutions:
Obafemi for Cundle 62’
Ntcham for Fulton 66’
Oko-Flex for Sorinola 74’
Latibeaudiere for Cooper 74’
 
Amazing what a win can do. This division is so tight. We’re in 10th place in the table on 15 points, 3 points more and we would be in the play-offs, 3 points less and we’d be down in 17th place with Cardiff.
We could be up there if we sort out our defending and stop giving away goals through slow, overpassing out from the back instead of hoofing it when necessary.
We’ve won 3 of the last 4 matches, could have been 4 out of 4 but we gifted the game to the Blades, so a definite improvement with the tweaking of tactics by Martin.
 
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