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Swansea City v Reading Liberty Stadium EFL Championship Wednesday 30th December 2020 Kick Off 8pm
Match Officials DAVID WEBB Craig Taylor and Richard Wild Fourth Official : Lee Swabey
TV SKY SPORTS FOOTBALL KICK OFF 8PM
SWANS TV FROM 7.50PM
What do we know about Reading FC ? Monty Don isn’t a Reading supporter, for those that don’t know Monty, ( most people who use that moniker are very cowardly) he is a gardener, but not really because he only grows weeds and when nobody is looking he glues flowers on them. Then he says ‘ ohhhh look what I’ve done, I’m a gardener’ He mainly scoops up loads of compost, which is basically shit, and puts it in different places, in fact he does this so often you would have thought he was a Cardiff fan, he can’t be though because his hair is too curly and he is too tall.
Monty Don with his dog, who is possibly dead, but not in this picture.
Ayrton Senna was born in Reading, he lived there until he won some racing competitions in a car. Senna was born in a house in Chelsea Close, Reading and only sold it when he was about eleven years old to buy a new car. In those days he was known as Brian or Knobhead ( to his mum) Proof Ayrton Senna is from Reading.
Reading is the only village in the Englands to be called a town, that’s quite a feat. Also just outside Reading is Broadmoor hospital where the more bloody frightening folk in the country are sent when they scare the shit out of people or kill them, whichever comes first. Not everyone who is sent to Broadmoor is dangerous, although that’s a qualification for most people to get in to the building. A little known fact is the ‘Silent Twins’ from West Wales were sent there after they set fire to a lot of the town of Haverfordwest. Their names were June and Jennifer Gibbons. One is now dead and the other lives in Haverfordwest where the sale of fire extinguishers shot up on her return home.
In the last thirteen games played between Swansea City and Reading the Swans haven’t lost any games, winning eight and drawing five. Swansea have scored twenty four goals in those games winning two of them 4-1 away.
Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Ben Cabango, Ryan Bennett, Marc Guehi; Connor Roberts, Korey Smith, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Andre Ayew, Jamal Lowe.
Substitutes: Steven Benda, Ryan Manning, Viktor Gyokeres, Wayne Routledge, Yan Dhanda, Joel Latibeaudiere, Oli Cooper, Jordon Garrick, Kasey Palmer.
Reading: Rafael Cabral, Tomas Esteves, Michael Morrison (captain), Tom McIntyre, Michael Olise, Andy Rinomhota, Sam Baldock, Ovie Ejaria, Josh Laurent, Tom Holmes, Alfa Semedo.
Substitutes: Luke Southwood, Omar Richards, John Swift, Sone Aluko, Nahum Melvin-Lambert, Tennai Watson, Ryan East, Jeriel Dorsett.
Strongest 11 to start, so Naughton (if fit) for Cabango and Smith for Dhanda (or Palmer if the manager still rates him).
Reading are tricky, pacey and fit. We should take the game to them and grab a goal or two, control the middle with our strongest 3 and stoically defend with our usual measured, controlled approach led by Bennett.
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Swansea City v Reading : Matchday Thread 30th Dec 2020 on 21:31 - Dec 27 with 4390 views
They are without a lot of players through injury i gather. Possibly no Puscas, Meite or Joao. It could mean they may try and park the bus which we may struggle to break down. If we aren't over confident we should win but it wont be easy.
This is where the rotation that Cooper has employed all season (specifically the back three and middle three) has paid off in spades. Reading, like other clubs who don’t have that luxury will fall off the pace as injuries compound matters. Selling Rodon has given us the best possible chance of promotion.
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Swansea City v Reading : Matchday Thread 30th Dec 2020 on 10:15 - Dec 29 with 3676 views
I have to disagree here because i don't think up to this point the facts back up that viewpoint. The players we brought in apart from Bennett who was the direct replacement (and in all reality isn't as good as Rodon) have barely played and when they have its down to injuries. Latibeaudiere has only played due to injuries, Naughton is the player that comes in when its pure rotation. Manning played twice maybe? And let's face it a shattered Bidwell couldn't have done any worse against boro. Cooper doesn't seem to rate Palmer much, usually in midfield its Smith, Dhanda and fulton sharing games. MGW and Byers are coming back his game time will be even less.
And that's of course if you believe that we had to sell our prized asset at cut price 11mill to bring in some free transfers, loans and 250k contract nearing ending bargain.
I agree with what you wrote about rotation but don't think Rodon was better than Bennett. Rodon is struggling with the move up and, although he stood out in some of the few games he played at senior level, he never looked comfortable. Bennett is quiet, assured and provides experience. Given his injury history and lack of experience I think we got a fair price for Joe - he may have been worth more to us but from the outside it was a fair price.
Im not saying Bennett is bad player, he's a solid championship defender. But is on the way down. Its a huge jump for Rodon to try&get into a spurs mourinho team challenging for the title. But with us in the championship he'd be playing every week&improving& probably still not at his peak.
11mill is definitely too low.
Edit: and going forward I'd be far more confident of Rodon stepping up and excelling in prem in the event of us going up then Bennett who's probably already reached his ceiling. And that's no slight on him at all.
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